Woolacombe Bay Quotes

#1. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov

#2. Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.

Robert H. Goddard

#3. You never learn how to write a novel," he told me. "You only learn to write the novel you're on." He

Neil Gaiman

#4. The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

Walter Winchell

#5. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Henry Lawson

#6. History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

Horace Walpole

#7. Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.

Rose Wynters

#8. What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

H.P. Lovecraft

#9. What did he do to you?"
"This," I said, holding up my hand. There was a shattering noise as Renee dropped her plate.
"It's on her right hand," Darah pointed out.
"Oh," Renee said, leaning down to get the plate. "So I broke a plate for nothing.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#10. Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

Luther Standing Bear

#11. Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

Vladislav Surkov

#12. It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)

John Irving

#13. No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.

Heber J. Grant