Quotes About Nobbs

#1. The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

Terry Pratchett

#2. You can't turn something into something else," said Corporal Nobbs. "The Alchemists have been trying it for years." "They a can gen'rally turn a house into a hole in the ground," said Sergeant Colon.

Terry Pratchett

#3. the memorial stained-glass window dedicated to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, on whose side God had been in two world wars, though this hadn't prevented them suffering heavy casualties.

David Nobbs

#4. Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated.

Italo Svevo

#5. The best actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well ...

Alfred Hitchcock

#6. God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

Richard J. Foster

#7. I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

Michael Scott

#8. In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.

Gordon Brown

#9. The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

Mark Millar

#10. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

George S. Clason

#11. Life without decency is unbearable.

Albert Nobbs

#12. My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

Carrie Fisher

#13. I believe I have thought of nothing but the mystery of your skin and the scent of your hair since the day we met. I believe I meant every word in that chapel about making you my wife, and I believe I am going to have the time of my life on our wedding night, my dear. Do you believe?

Leslea Tash