Rouncewell Quotes

#1. Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.

Charles Dickens

#2. I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Clint Eastwood

#3. Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#4. There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again.

Willie Nelson

#5. In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

Peter Baynham

#6. I am a slave in your palace. - Sultan Suleyman Khan, Suleyman the Magnificent, The Shadow of God on Earth.

P.J. Parker

#7. I'm pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you're a kid and there's a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that's the best reason to be in the industry!

Serinda Swan

#8. My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.

Leila Aboulela

#9. A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present.

Kate Morton