Quotes About Ceylon

#1. Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#2. I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

Fennel Hudson

#4. Early railway journeys took him to Ceylon, Thailand, and Burma; he would later describe his wanderlust as the "peripatetics of a Jewish prince".

VO Blum

#5. We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America
as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.

Maria Semple

#7. How not to miss those days when the sun was a happy companion that stayed to play all year round and kissed me a careless nut brown? When Mother caught the sweet rain in her well behind the house, and the air was so clear that the grass smelled green?

Rani Manicka

#8. First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Tom DeMarco

#9. Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

Gina McCarthy

#10. If I work hard and am rewarded, then I haven't really gained anything. It has been a trade: I've put in, and I've gotten back. Only if I am rewarded without having done anything have I actually come out ahead. The best way to gain the most is to do nothing.

John S. Hall

#11. Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Cameron Diaz

#12. We're like the dynamic duo, bro. We're like Batman and Robin, but we're both Batman.

Zook

#13. All afternoon it rained, then
such power came down from the clouds
on a yellow thread,
as authoritative as God is supposed to be.
When it hit the tree, her body
opened forever.

Mary Oliver

#14. It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.

G. Willow Wilson

#15. Letting you go, Karou, will be like oenin the window for a butterfly. One does not hope for the butterfly's return."
"I'm not a freaking butterfly.

Laini Taylor