Quotes About Orpington

#1. One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status.

Julian Barnes

#2. You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

Ray Lewis

#3. Lyme disease, psittacosis, Q fever: These three differ wildly in their particulars but share two traits in common. They are all zoonotic and they are all bacterial. They stand as reminders that not every bad, stubborn, new bug is a virus.

David Quammen

#4. Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.

Pal Benko

#5. The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. "Who are you?"
"I'm ... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I ... built the cellar for you?"
"Oh," the Torment said. "You. Why are you back? I thought you were dead. It would have been nice if you were dead

Derek Landy

#6. At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

Peter Watts

#7. She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.

Armistead Maupin

#8. To frighten others was simple. To control oneself and act calmly was a

Emily Cantore

#9. In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings

Daisaku Ikeda

#10. Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard Paul Evans

#11. When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.

Martin Evans

#12. To understand is to perceive patterns.

Isaiah Berlin

#13. I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Khloe Kardashian