Pennines Quotes

#1. I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.

Anthony Browne

#2. Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto Von Bismarck

#3. Like an ocean on fire, the red-tiled rooftops of Rome spread out before him, glowing in the scarlet sunset.

Dan Brown

#4. Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.

Julie Garwood

#5. How do our lives ravel out
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.

William Faulkner

#6. In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.

Kathryn Harrison