Sloss Barber Quotes

#1. A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space
a place not just set apart but reverberant
and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Michael Pollan

#2. A knock on the door you hear, a knock on your head you don't.

Dixie Waters

#3. I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

D. L. Hughley

#4. As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

Justin Chadwick

#5. Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.

Roald Dahl