Northwards Quotes

#1. The early Celts lived in an enormous region, stretching from modern Turkey through eastern and central Europe (including much of modern day Switzerland, Austria, Germany and northern Italy), and westwards and northwards into much of Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Britain and Ireland.

Sharon Paice MacLeod

#2. Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Fine figure of a young fellow as far northwards as the neck, but above that solid concrete.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers, and dancers are interested in magic.

Vivianne Crowley

#5. I'm not talking nonsense, lass. I'd give you the whole of the moon if I could, and throw in the stars for good measure,' he said, taking her hand, and kissing it. 'You couldn't be content with less?

Georgette Heyer

#6. As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.

Lydia Sigourney

#7. You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.

Bill Callahan

#8. A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Seneca.

#9. Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal readers would have kissed and then read on.

Alberto Manguel

#10. I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

Vera Farmiga

#11. The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

John Chancellor

#12. I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Paulo Coelho

#13. They say you're big before you're small I'm sure glad I don't know it all.

Sara Quin

#14. People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard.

David Brooks

#15. He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Andrew Holleran