Navvy's Quotes

#1. I was lured into a navvy's cottage tonight!" - Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to his Father.

Eric Bishop-Potter

#2. I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting for how the high elevation would impact my tolerance.

Tim Pratt

#3. No dog training method should ever be used if it conflicts with how you feel about your dog and how he should be treated. And no advice should ever be heeded if it supersedes your own common sense and intuition.

Paul Owens

#4. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.

Paulo Coelho

#5. I guess you could say my mind was injured and that's why I didn't play.

Donna Freitas

#6. You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

Stephen Fry

#7. It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

Warren Buffett

#8. For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

James Arthur

#9. We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

Jacki Weaver

#10. I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

Anne Hutchinson

#11. Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

#12. You know about women who work in bars." "What about them?" Bing asked. "Whores," Manx said. "Almost all of them. At least until their looks go, and in the case of Lily Carter's mother they're going fast.

Joe Hill

#13. Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Francis Bacon

#14. As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

Plutarch

#15. I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is stick my hair in a ponytail and put on a big sweater, some tights and a pair of sneakers after a week working in the city.

Bobbi Brown