Scilly Quotes

#1. Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#2. Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.

Oliver Markus

#3. I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. With the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Life is all about the spirit.

John Trudell

#6. He was all over me like brown rice!

L'Poni Baldwin

#7. I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

Rebecca Hall

#8. There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

#9. God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

Ida Rolf

#10. What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

J.H. Wyman

#11. A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus

#12. In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Thomas Paine

#13. She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs.

Gregory Maguire

#14. What the hell is your problem?" Sputtered Jason, pushing his wet hair back from his face.
"Oh I don't know. One minute you're kissing my girlfriend and the next you're throwing her down a hill.

Kathleen Peacock

#15. All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?

Eliphas Levi