Top 15 Sir John Betjeman Quotes
#1. Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.
Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel
#2. Wanting him back was like wanting to cut off your arms or have your toes poked with needles. It didn't make sense.
Jennifer Close
#3. I seen the look in your eyes ... I reached out to touch you but feared I would mark your skin. I do not want just tonight, my love. I want to know that always ... always ... you will be mine.
Faye Hall
#4. Simon had never realized what a sad sound it was: hope.
Cassandra Clare
#6. Mercer didn't know, but Lost Illusions was one of his personal favorites. Basically, a young poet from the provinces comes to Paris to make his fortune and, in the fullness of time, discovers that he's been wrong about everything. All the people he takes for geniuses are idiots, and vice versa.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#7. I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#8. I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know ... But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
Margaret Caroline Anderson
#9. The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.
Matt Haig
#10. Wait, was that Mal Ericson from Stage Dive?
Fuck a duck, it was.
Kylie Scott
#11. Ever since the first day I'd seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.
Michelle Madow
#12. No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data
John Sculley
#13. Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of being free required one to be a person of integrity, a person who lived in such a way that there would always be congruency between what one thinks, says, and does.
Bell Hooks
#14. The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.
Gerhard Casper
#15. There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion
