Wigan Pier Quotes

#1. I can see what you're up to."
"Five foot six inches," Shallan said. "I suspect that's all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. The magic words for a great relationship are, I love you just the way you are.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#3. But the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.

David Lodge

#4. I love metaphors. I've never been on this train ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

Serena Williams

#5. To die from 'a draining away of one's strength caused by extreme old age' was in Montaigne's day a 'rare, singular and extraordinary death.' Nowadays we assume it as our right.

Julian Barnes

#6. It wasn't the body," he said. "I've seen worse things in our fridge.

Jonathan Stroud

#7. Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Emil Zatopek

#8. We're very much in the people business in that there are two important groups you have to work with: customers and employees.

Fred DeLuca

#9. It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are. - GEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier

Gretchen Rubin

#10. Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera ... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

Lord Mountbatten

#12. We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

Wayne Rogers