"I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman."

-- Alice Meynell

#Light Quotes #Sound Quotes #Bishops Quotes

“As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!”
“If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!”
“When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me”

Source : Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.”
“You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11, you know, and playing in the National Football League.”
“People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have better routine images than someone else's routine images. If you want a prescription for routine images, you just have to go through any student's portfolio.”
“Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.”

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