South Shields Sayings

#1. I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

Les Dawson

#2. I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

David Miliband

#3. My dear friends, my dear disciples, don't take refuge in anything outside of you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. Anna's spiritual formation was relegated to cultural expressions of faith: the Christmas Baby Jesus and his gifts, the Easter risen Christ and his chocolate bunnies, and a copy of The Thorn Birds pulled from her mother's bookshelf.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#5. Our shadows are our histories. We drag them everywhere.

Anthony Doerr

#6. Skyler often thought that the Seneca quotation Poe included was a dig at Dupin-or perhaps Poe himself: Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. "Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness." "That's for sure," said Skyler aloud. "Or more succintly put, 'No one likes a smart ass'.

Haley Walsh

#7. It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it.

Adrienne Martini

#8. Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.

Edward Hoagland

#9. Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Let's see you find the world now.

Vasko Popa

#12. John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Mark Shields

#13. Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.

Brice Marden

#14. Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

Dorothy Parker

#15. My heart's pounding like I'm watching Oprah's farewell season.

LIZ