Land Quotes - Page 53

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.

I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.

Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.

Land really is the best art.

Scotland can't afford to take their minds off the gas

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

This land is made for you and me.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.