Northumbria Quotes

#1. earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"' 'Found what?' said the Duck. 'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course

Lewis Carroll

#2. He said 'That! Put that in your purse! I don't like that!' when I took off my brassiere. It remained there, though, curled up on his wooden floor, curled awkwardly for a piece of clothing, not awkwardly if it had been something else perhaps, a creature.

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Diane Williams

#3. The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

Dave Barry

#4. One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

Edouard Bourdet

#5. A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

Ned Sublette

#6. Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

C.S. Lewis

#7. When I saw the rats the first time, I wanted to drop my basket where it was and run away, but we weren t rich enough for symbolic gestures. So I walked.

Paula McLain

#8. The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.

Bill Scott

#9. I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

Christina Ricci

#10. The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't be all the trouble there was.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.

Caroline B. Cooney

#12. All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.

Paul Gascoigne

#13. Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Bill Maher

#14. I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.

Garth Greenwell

#15. But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#16. I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

Natalie Imbruglia