Shippys Quotes

#1. Don't get between me and my chocolate!

Gail Koger

#2. The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.

J.C. Ryle

#3. Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)

William Goldman

#4. There was certainly a space I felt for me, don't complain about it not being there, make it.

Erol Alkan

#5. I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill -
a skill based in self-esteem.

Caroline Myss

#6. I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

George Eliot

#7. Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

Margaret Thatcher

#8. Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

Lawrence Durrell

#9. Well, that's interesting," I said. "What's interesting?" Jack called from the other room. "Something is interesting?" Lend shouted. "No! Nothing!

Kiersten White

#10. This is not a game, you horrible man,' Mr. Poe said. 'Dominos is a game. Water polo is a game. Murder is a crime, and you will go to jail for it. I will drive you to the police station in town right this very minute.

Lemony Snicket

#11. If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

Henry Petroski

#12. Cigarettes' cost far outweigh any resulting trimness, just as asphyxiation outweighs the benefits of stretching out the spine when you hang yourself from a shower curtain rod.

A. J. Jacobs

#13. If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove.

Truman Capote