Whipsnade Tree Quotes

#1. Your generation was promised a decent husband and maybe a job on the side. Mine," I said with some nostalgia and a hint of disappointment, "mine was promised jet packs.

Holly Morris

#2. Expect nothing, get nothing.

Haruki Murakami

#3. It is not that you know nothing about war, young man ... It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.

Richard Flanagan

#4. No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

Alfred Doblin

#5. All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. No one can see the point where the longing is the most concentrated.

Riitta Jalonen

#7. The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

Anthony Bourdain

#8. If you want to be an actor, don't. If you need to be an actor, do.

Derek Jacobi

#9. I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who grew up without parents, some abandoned because of their ethnicity, others because of tragedy. And her arms reached out wide.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#11. If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want ... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

Val Kilmer

#12. When someone talks bad about you, it's probably that they have nothing good to say about themselves. Just ... forget about it!

Timothy Pina

#13. See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

Francis Quarles