Under Milk Wood Quotes

#1. You may well ask me why ... I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty
percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty
percent are glad you're having them.

E. J. Holub

#3. Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal

#4. Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

Paul McCartney

#5. We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.

Dylan Thomas

#6. Like a milk mustache, faint traces of you persist; love leaves evidence.

Maryrose Wood

#7. I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

Curtis Jackson

#8. No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

Robert Aickman

#9. The wood echoed to the hoarse ringing of other saws; somewhere, very far away, a nightingale was trying out its voice, and at longer intervals a blackbird whistled as if blowing dust out of a flute. Even the engine steam rose into the sky warbling like milk boiling up on a nursery alchohol stove.

Boris Pasternak

#10. Your consciousness will make you conscious of others

Thabiso Monkoe

#11. Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.

Christos Tsiolkas

#12. Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Charles Lamb

#13. I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.

Joseph Delaney