Washout Crossword Quotes

#1. For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

William Shakespeare

#2. O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than ... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.

Walter Benjamin

#3. Our experience is fragmentary. Its parts don't add up. They don't even belong in the same calculation. Sometimes it is hard to believe they are all parts of one thing. Nothing makes sense until we realize that experience does not accumulate like money, or memories, or like years and frailties.

Marilynne Robinson

#4. Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

Lara Spencer

#5. Yeah, beware the small man ... Always beware the small man. He'll fuck you every time. Because they never forget, do they? All that grief they got at school. Over and over, and for the rest of their miserable short-arsed lives, someone's got to pay.

John Niven

#6. A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.

Philip Kerr

#7. Now my own followers will want to do me to death again, for having risen up different from their expectation.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Alan Paton