"In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance."

-- Lady Gregory

#Home Quotes #Two Quotes #Sheep Quotes

“Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.”
“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”

Source : Raymond E. Feist (1993). “Silverthorn”, Spectra
“Pele should go back to the museum.”
“The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.”
“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.”
“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
“The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us."”
“He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.”

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