Quotes About Atkinson

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning . What was that from? Measure for Measure ? But perhaps, truth was asleep until the end of reckoning. There was going to be an awful lot of reckoning when the time came.

Gloria regretted that she wasn't a knitter, she could be producing a useful garment while waiting for Graham to die.

There were doorways between this world and the next, she said, but only certain people could pass through them.

Don't let your imagination run away with you, Miss Armstrong. But why would you not when the reality was so awful? And that was that. Juliet's war.

What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was.

genuine sentiment rather than just nostalgia, always a bit of a cheap emotion

sequiturs. 'That's got nothing to do with it,' Teddy

Popular versurs literary—a false divide?

He turned to look at the dog and said, "Oh, it's not mine. I thought you could perhaps do me the favor of looking after it for a short while.

Popular versus literary—a false divide?

Jackson had never had an allergy in his life (except to people, perhaps).

Ursula declined, fearing enchantment.

My country," Prince Bernhard observed, "can never again afford the luxury of another Montgomery success.

casern for four years, using the municipal

a phrase he attributed to Voltaire: "That calm courage in the midst of tumult, that serenity of a soul in danger, which is the greatest gift of nature for command." Gavin called it "the courage of two o'clock in the morning

I remember Ron Atkinson used to play in the sessions at Manchester United when he was the manager. Rated himself as a player.

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers Alexander Pope

I'm not sure," Atkinson replied. "Maybe six months." It was a wildly optimistic assessment, but also a motivating one.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.