Oxpens Quotes

#1. Rooks were cawing somewhere, and bells were ringing, and from the oxpens the steady beat of a gas engine announced the ascent of the evening Royal Mail zeppelin for London.

Philip Pullman

#2. We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Jackie Tabick

#3. (...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#4. Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Mary Lou Retton

#5. I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

David Cronenberg

#6. On the way out of the bathroom, he stopped to put the toilet seat down. You're going to break my heart, Ford Winter, she thought.

Michele Jaffe

#7. I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.

Richard Gere

#8. Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.

Terry Pratchett

#10. MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. A lot of films come out before they're finished.

Ed Harris

#12. And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

Jessie J.

#13. It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer ... and everything collapses.

Colette

#14. Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

Benjamin Hoff

#15. I know you love me. The question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult