Tobak Quotes

#1. Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset's pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden.

St John Morris

#2. I was not insecure. I was a perfectly normal combination of arrogant and narcissistic.

Dani Alexander

#3. I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.

Anna Akhmatova

#4. Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

Douglas Adams

#5. She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the look he gave her seemed to reveal the depths of his lustful, longing, bitter soul. "Good-bye, Miss Fielding," he said hoarsely.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. It's such a gift when another person knows you through and through, brings out your best, and turns a blind eye to your worst.

Kathy Kalina

#7. From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Jean De La Fontaine

#8. I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.

Thomas A. Edison

#9. What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.

Eve Ensler

#10. One of the most beautiful happenstances of life is the person doing precisely what he knows is intended for him. Unfortunately a rare situation.

Vince Vawter

#11. I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife' ... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

Judy Parfitt

#12. The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

Heather Demetrios