Okay, I also promised some quotes for Novelty Bead use, if wanted. These are all random quotes I collected (often for possible text icon use) over the years:
Framed:
Home is where the art is.
Note: the best bits are between the lines.
"I'm not perpetrating a fraud. I'm being polite."
Sometimes your friends are enemies in disguise.
Time is the greatest mutagen of them all.
Miss Marple: "What I like about you is your delightfully practical mind."
"The most frightening word there can be is love."
Joan Aiken: "My mother used to say that every little girl should be able to cook, play the piano, sing and shoot."
What can have been the object of this deceit?
"I could not see why a person who had done such harm should be allowed to stay alive."
I Capture the Castle "I think it worthy of note that I have never felt happier in my life."
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
I tried... but there are limits to human invention.
Doomwatch "You've done the impossible, now don't try do the intolerable."
"He's wearing a very small bandage and a large halo!"
"Morals are not a question of mathematics."
The Power Game "Facts are for people who make encyclopaedias."
"He's lost his talent for optimism."
"I wouldn't give you a broken pencil."
"It's your head. I just provide the wall."
"50% of the guests are likely to be fools. She'll merge quite happily."
"Confidence is the feeling one has before one understands the problem."
"If you can't win, you'll destroy. Where will it end?"
"The last thing I want on my tombstone is 'Ambition killed him'."
"Why are you so formal when you're at your most devious?"
"Life is not your actual bowl of cherries."
"It's just that failure would be so embarrassing."
"Executive procedure, rule 1 - always kick a man when he's down. You'll never get a better chance."
"I'm far too fond of winning."
"All this sink or swim stuff gives me earache."
"In business, no such animal exists as a gentleman."
"I'd think the government had been very clever... if only I could believe it knew what it was doing."
"There's always a loose end to tie up somewhere."
"Heaven preserve me from ambitious men!"
"I don't know how you get any work done... you're all so busy trying to manipulate one another."
"You ought to found a society - martyrs anonymous!"
"Power is never non-political."
"If he gets any more irons, he'll need another fire."
"I have to dash off - I've got to catch an early grave."
"Oh, absolutely. You're right - you were wrong!"
It wouldn't be better, it would only be easier.
"I know when I'm beaten, but there's no law says I have to be reasonable about it!"
"The day you can count on me will be a nasty shock for us both."
"When they make a hypocrite of the year award... remind me to nominate you!"
"You've changed, haven't you, over the years. What is it - age or shame?"
"It helps to give a fairly convincing illusion of activity."
[more later. Or, you know, just tell me to stop. I have a lot of these sorts of things!!]
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Framed:
Home is where the art is.
Note: the best bits are between the lines.
"I'm not perpetrating a fraud. I'm being polite."
Sometimes your friends are enemies in disguise.
Time is the greatest mutagen of them all.
Miss Marple:
"What I like about you is your delightfully practical mind."
"The most frightening word there can be is love."
Joan Aiken:
"My mother used to say that every little girl should be able to cook, play the piano, sing and shoot."
What can have been the object of this deceit?
"I could not see why a person who had done such harm should be allowed to stay alive."
I Capture the Castle
"I think it worthy of note that I have never felt happier in my life."
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
I tried... but there are limits to human invention.
Doomwatch
"You've done the impossible, now don't try do the intolerable."
"He's wearing a very small bandage and a large halo!"
"Morals are not a question of mathematics."
The Power Game
"Facts are for people who make encyclopaedias."
"He's lost his talent for optimism."
"I wouldn't give you a broken pencil."
"It's your head. I just provide the wall."
"50% of the guests are likely to be fools. She'll merge quite happily."
"Confidence is the feeling one has before one understands the problem."
"If you can't win, you'll destroy. Where will it end?"
"The last thing I want on my tombstone is 'Ambition killed him'."
"Why are you so formal when you're at your most devious?"
"Life is not your actual bowl of cherries."
"It's just that failure would be so embarrassing."
"Executive procedure, rule 1 - always kick a man when he's down. You'll never get a better chance."
"I'm far too fond of winning."
"All this sink or swim stuff gives me earache."
"In business, no such animal exists as a gentleman."
"I'd think the government had been very clever... if only I could believe it knew what it was doing."
"There's always a loose end to tie up somewhere."
"Heaven preserve me from ambitious men!"
"I don't know how you get any work done... you're all so busy trying to manipulate one another."
"You ought to found a society - martyrs anonymous!"
"Power is never non-political."
"If he gets any more irons, he'll need another fire."
"I have to dash off - I've got to catch an early grave."
"Oh, absolutely. You're right - you were wrong!"
It wouldn't be better, it would only be easier.
"I know when I'm beaten, but there's no law says I have to be reasonable about it!"
"The day you can count on me will be a nasty shock for us both."
"When they make a hypocrite of the year award... remind me to nominate you!"
"You've changed, haven't you, over the years. What is it - age or shame?"
"It helps to give a fairly convincing illusion of activity."
[more later. Or, you know, just tell me to stop. I have a lot of these sorts of things!!]