Shillington Quotes

#1. I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

John Updike

#2. High time they put the RAF in kilts.

Elizabeth Wein

#3. Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.

Brenda Joyce

#4. The greatest among ye shall be the servant of all

Napoleon Hill

#5. She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called a clearly-defined world view.

Heda Margolius Kovaly

#6. blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.

Thomas A. Harris

#7. I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

John Frusciante

#8. They asked me why I loved him, and I said: "Because he doesn't remember how to love himself.

Frauke Heyde

#9. Nicely put," I said. "And all in less than two minutes."
"Conciseness is underrated," she said easily.

Sarah Dessen

#10. I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy.

Ricky Jay

#11. Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.

Neville Cardus

#12. When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She

Octavia E. Butler

#13. It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

Ian McEwan

#14. Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage.

Alexandra Styron

#15. There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Tupac Shakur

#16. I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.

Clea Duvall