Nottinghamshire School Quotes

#1. Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?

Walter Scott

#2. It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Edith Beale

#3. A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Deirdre O'Kane

#5. I could stare at the books ... until my were as dry & fuzzy as the text, but I still didn't know what to do with my feelings.

Elizabeth Hein

#6. With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That's how people want to be treated, with respect. That's what I tell my employees.. customer service is very important.

Magic Johnson

#7. I may be an optimist.

Rebecca De Mornay

#8. It is like looking down from the cliffs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.

James Joyce

#9. What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.

Henri Bergson

#10. Incertitude is still hope.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

Abraham Pais

#13. For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy of the needy: none of them common good of all.

Aristotle.

#14. I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Sara Shepard