Quotes for All
It’s promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it’s not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. … Read more
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. ‘Forever,’ he said. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own. G. H. Hardy
During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. … Read more
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. Evan Esar
I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. Erik Satie
The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people. Eric Hobsbawm
I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did…Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my … Read more
I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a … Read more
By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it’s like my diary, it’s where I can go in my own little bubble. Ella Henderson