Rookery Quotes

#1. The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

V.S. Pritchett

#2. That's the Rookery. It is hidden from the eyes of the populace, a secret fortress that protects the normal people even as they remain ignorant of it. It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious.

Daniel O'Malley

#3. Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head.
"Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!

Charles Dickens

#5. The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

Aaron Klein

#6. Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.

Robert Bloch

#7. I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.

Joel McHale

#8. Work at it night and day.

Horace

#9. The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket.

Gerald M. Loeb

#10. Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

Nhat Hanh

#11. Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier
mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay.
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

David Bowie

#12. I am too big and too small and too much and not enough and too frightened to change and too sad to stay the same.

Nancy Tucker

#13. Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ernest Dimnet

#14. Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part

Winston Graham

#15. There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

William Shenstone

#16. I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

Dennis Quaid