Fletcher Quotes

In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. ~ John Fletcher

Reading is reading - no matter what the material. ~ Giovanna Fletcher

Where death gives you a sense of humour, life gives you a sense of love. ~ Athan Fletcher

But when it came to Jackson, breathing was overrated. He wasn't the kind of guy any girl could breathe around, really. Even I wasn't immune. ~ Erin Fletcher

Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret. ~ Ralph Fletcher

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it. ~ Adam Fletcher

A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male. ~ Anne Fletcher

There are many different words inside a city. The world of the rich and the world of beggars. The world of men and the world behind the veil. The worlds of Muslims and of Christians and of Jews.
If you are a rich woman living inside a harem, the world of a poor Christian beggarman is as foreign as China or Abyssinia.
All the worlds touch at the bazaar. And the other place where they touch is in stories. Shahrazad crossed borders all the time, telling tales of country women and Bedouin sheikhs, of poor fishermen and scheming sultanas, of Jewish doctors and Christian brokers, of India and China and the lands of the jinn.
If we don't share our stories - trading them across our borders as freely as spices and ebony and silk - we will all be strangers forever. ~ Susan Fletcher

Death hath so many doors to let out life. ~ John Fletcher

The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that is passed down upon you by tradition. That's the English way, and the Lowland way
but who can be born a nobleman? Nobility is earned ... 'Tis our choices that make us. ~ Susan Fletcher

How do you always know just what to say?" I ask.
His laugh rumbles through me. "Practice, I guess."
I pull back and give him a quizzical look.
"I spent three years imagining what I would say to you if you were mine," he says, tugging me close.
"I should hope I know what to say now that I've got you. ~ Tera Lynn Childs

But you've brought him happiness, Eponine; he is happy because of you - and that was my only comfort as I cried and cried, feeling so lonely, in my house of leaves. ~ Susan Fletcher

No funny business. I'll scream and dead or not it will hurt your ears ~ Penelope Fletcher

That thought had balled itself up and turned itself into a stone which has resided inside his heart. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

The penny dropped. I sat in my room and burst into tears. Our band had barely begun, and already our drummer and bass player were a couple of drug fiends! ~ Tom Fletcher

Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements. ~ John Collier

It is a world of startling possibilities. ~ Charles Fletcher Dole

Back at home I spent so much time on my own, but never once felt lonely. Here, even though I see hundreds more people each day, I've never felt lonelier. ~ Giovanna Fletcher

A life lived in fear is a life half lived. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

If I thought someone was just chatting me up because of being on TV, it'd kill me. ~ Kelvin Fletcher

Love is too small a word - too small. ~ Susan Fletcher

only dare tread the waters of insanity at night as they lie dreaming. Cowards. Dive deep into your psychopathy. Let loose the demons of delusion and know, in the end, when they finally devour you, you swam with sharks. - VERSKLAVEN SCHWACHE, GEFAHRGEIST PHILOSOPHER ~ Michael R. Fletcher

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot. ~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The Middle Temple Murder ~ J.S. Fletcher

It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way. ~ Kelvin Fletcher

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse. ~ Phineas Fletcher

You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I ... '
'Don't?'
'Exactly,' he said happily. ~ Derek Landy

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony. ~ Charles Fletcher Dole

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy. ~ Ernie Fletcher

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level. ~ Anne Fletcher

The coward's weapon, poison. ~ John Fletcher

I'm now unmistakeably attracted to the yeti. ~ K.A. Tucker

Little deeds of kindness
Little words of love;
Help to make earth an Eden
Like the heaven above. ~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

The fear of getting close to someone in case they leave me ~ Giovanna Fletcher

I'm unaccustomed to being cooped up all day-I really must insist that you permit me to enjoy a short walk."
"Not on your life," Fletcher growled.
From the sound, Breckenridge realized the group had moved closer to the tap.
"You don't need to think you're going to give us the slip so easily," Fletcher said again.
"My dear good man"-Heather with her nose in the air; Breckenridge could tell by her tone-"just where in this landscape of empty fields do you imagine I'm going to slip to?"
Cobbins opined that she might try to steal a horse and ride off.
"Oh,yes-in a round gown and evening slippers," Heather jeered. "But I wasn't suggesting you let me ramble on my own-Martha can come with me."
That was Martha's cue to enter the fray, but Heather stuck to her guns, refusing to back down through the ensuing, increasingly heated verbal stoush.
Until Fletcher intervened, aggravated frustration resonating in his voice. "Look you-we're under strict orders to keep you safe, not to let you wander off to fall prey to the first shiftless rake who rides past and takes a fancy to you."
Silence reigned for half a minute, then Heather audibly sniffed. "I'll have you know that shiftless rakes know better than to take a fancy to me."
Not true, Breckenridge thought, but that wasn't the startling information contained in Fletcher's outburst. "Come on, Heather-follow up."
As if she'd heard his muttered exhortation, she blithely swept on. "But if ra ~ Stephanie Laurens

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world. ~ Adam Fletcher

I know you wish to be normal, human, but soon you will see there is nothing better than what you are. ~ Penelope Fletcher

The only evil in the world is the one that lies in people - in their pride, and greed, and duty. Remember that. ~ Susan Fletcher

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing. ~ Louise Fletcher

Each of the three cultures in New Mexico during the mid-1800s (Caucasian, Hispanic, and Native American) were actively involved in kidnapping each other. As competition and fighting occurred between the three races, cruelty and violence were rampant on all sides. Yet, some captives found kindness among their captors. ~ Noel Marie Fletcher

You may dream about turning it around as quickly as we did, but you wouldn't expect it to become reality, ... But we jelled quickly and got it done. We're a whole new defense compared to last year. ~ London Fletcher

You're worth three of these other retards that I have working for me," Mr. Fletcher said. For a moment, he'd been flattered; then he realized he'd just been given the value of three retards. ~ T. Ellery Hodges

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose. ~ John Fletcher

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ~ Fletcher Knebel

The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.) ~ Robert J. Hutchinson

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. ~ Brendan Fletcher

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries. ~ Phil Daniels

Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains. ~ Colin Fletcher

Rona of the hurting heart. We've all had one of those. We have all picked at the seal of things that have been closed against us, and locked. ~ Susan Fletcher

Your tongue was in my mouth."
Breathless, I jerked my head. "So it was."
"It licked me."
"You licked back."
"It seemed rude not to."
"Well.... ~ Penelope Fletcher

Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness. ~ Michael R. Fletcher

We welcome that kind of shrapnel so that when it twinges in our souls we're filled with that glowing feeling that comfort us in our darkest hours and whispers from somewhere inside that our own happiness isn't impossible nor is it entirely lost. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

Everyone is on a journey at any given moment in their lives ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

Gull Fletcher," they asked, "did the Magnificent Jonathan say, 'We are in truth the ideas of the Great Gull . . .' or was it, 'We are in fact the ideas of the Great Gull . . .'?" "Please. Call me Fletcher. Just Fletcher Seagull," he would reply, appalled that they would use a term of reverence upon him. "And what difference does it make, which word he used? Both are correct, we are ideas of the Great Gull . . ." But ~ Richard Bach

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. ~ Gautama Buddha

I'm worried that the lady's going to be a hooker - and you're afraid she's BETTY CROCKER!

Molly Jane Fletcher ~ Jean Davies Okimoto

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. ~ Brendan Fletcher

Its all downhill from here on up! ~ Grant W. Fletcher

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident. ~ Charlie Fletcher

Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter. ~ Phineas Fletcher

It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane. ~ Louise Fletcher

Books turn out to be pretty durable if they're kept away from damp and rats. They can last hundreds of years, easy. Reading is another way we survive. It helps to know where we came from, how we got here. And most of all, for me, even thought these low and empty islands are all I have ever known, when I open the front cover of a new book, it's like a door, and I can travel far away in place and time. ~ C.A. Fletcher

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. ~ John Fletcher

His gaze was fixed on her and he noticed she had a twinkle. It was right there in her eyes. It wasn't a trick of the light. It was actually, physically there. Maybe it was the slight crunch of her nose when she smiled at him, which made the corners of her eyes crease that caused it, or maybe it was the way her eyebrows framed her eyes, but no matter what it was, when he saw that twinkle all he heared in his head was his heart laughing. ~ Vincent Winters ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

have coupled before the stick-like figures racing eternally, before ~ J.H. Fletcher

Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be. ~ Derek Landy

There is a lot of talking in human culture," Venomous told the other male in a low aside. "They debate everything and need words to calm them. I wager there is much talking during this custom. Watch me as I make our mate happy with words. ~ Penelope Fletcher

A man can be beautiful, I see that now. It's not just a woman's term, not a word reserved for romantic, virtuous, elegant things. I don't think beauty is neat anymore. It's unordered. It's unbrushed hair and a torn back pocket. It's bright and strange and lovely, and if I were to paint him, I'd use all the warm colours - ochre, gold, plum, terracotta, scarlet, burnt orange. I want him to see me as I saw him then, I want him to find me alone at the end of the day with the sun in my hair. I want his heart to buckle, too. I want him to stop someone out in the square and say, who's that? Do you know her? Where is she from?"

- from Eve Green's mother's account.
"It is written on a piece of thin, yellow paper, and is folded in half. I like this account. I like it because it's true, she's right. We all want out lovers to see us that way - unaware, natural, serene. We want to change their world with one glance, to stop their breath at the sight of us. ~ Susan Fletcher

Go away common sense, you don't live here anymore, hadn't you heard? ~ Penelope Fletcher

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice. ~ Richard Bach

I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn't initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something - and it's just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting. ~ Dexter Fletcher

Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world. ~ Mal Fletcher

But if you judge safety to be the paramount consideration in life you should never, under any circumstances, go on long hikes alone. Don't take short hikes alone, either – or, for that matter, go anywhere alone. And avoid at all costs such foolhardy activities as driving, falling in love, or inhaling air that is almost certainly riddled with deadly germs. Wear wool next to the skin. Insure every good and chattel you possess against every conceivable contingency the future might bring, even if the premiums half-cripple the present. Never cross an intersection against a red light, even when you can see all roads are clear for miles. And never, of course, explore the guts of an idea that seems as if it might threaten one of your more cherished beliefs. In your wisdom you will probably live to be a ripe old age. But you may discover, just before you die, that you have been dead for a long, long time. ~ Colin Fletcher

Shit," Misty says. "We really should have thought to bring you a shot of tequila, shouldn't we?"
"She doesn't need it," Rosalinda says. "She's got mental tequila."
"Mental tequila?" I ask.
"Bravery," she says. "It's a simile. Go with it. ~ Erin Fletcher

Soup,"she said gruffly. "Nothing in the world that can't be made worse by facing it on an empty stomach. Even if the end's coming, there's always time to eat. ~ Charlie Fletcher

To most Europeans, I guess, America now looks like the most dangerous country in the world. Since America is unquestionably the most powerful country, the transformation of America's image within the last thirty years is very frightening for Europeans. It is probably still more frightening for the great majority of the human race who are neither Europeans nor North Americans, but are Latin Americans, Asians and Africans. They, I imagine, feel even more insecure than we feel. They feel that, at any moment, America may intervene in their internal affairs with the same appalling consequences as have followed from American intervention in Southeast Asia. ~ L. Fletcher Prouty

Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a banking job, acting directing, whatever it is you have to stay true to who you are because they hired you to do what you do. ~ Anne Fletcher

People get scared when their faith turns out to be real, when their god actually turns up on their doorstep. ~ Athan Fletcher

As Duke Ellington put it, Henderson "was liberal in giving away his ideas to people. So liberal, in fact, that it is difficult to recognize the original Fletcher Henderson through his flock of imitators."3 ~ Jeffrey Magee

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked. ~ Susan Fletcher

It's the future, love, it's always changing. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you. ~ Ralph Fletcher

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. ~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you. ~ Colin Fletcher

Deeds, not words shall speak to me. ~ John William Fletcher

See, I understand what no one else seems to grasp. Communication is manipulation. Every time we speak we are trying to achieve an effect - a goal. We first learn to talk so we may better manipulate our parents. Sign language. Grunting and pointing. Wearing certain clothes and baubles. Walking or standing a certain way. This is all language and it is all manipulation. ~ Michael R. Fletcher

Springtime
and I wish I knew you ~ Ralph Fletcher

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.' ~ Ernie Fletcher

If the Christian life seems boring,
I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG! ~ Edmund Lloyd Fletcher

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot. ~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Where was my head just then? I've already said I'm plain yet all of a sudden I think I'm The Shit? I'm not myself, my thoughts just took an uncharacteristic turn to vanity. ~ Penelope Fletcher

Soon all of this shite-hole will know I am the Greatest Swordsman in the world. You, my friend, will sadly not live to see that day. Such is the fate of stepping-stones. ~ Michael R. Fletcher

Embrace the wrongness because it'll make the eventual rightness even sweeter ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

Looking back at those early days in the band house, we can all see how important they were in helping us bond as a band. It could have gone so wrong. Danny and I had picked Harry and Dougie after, literally, two days of knowing them. We could have all hated each other. We could have found that we had nothing in common, or that we resented the time we spent with each other. In fact, we had such a lot of fun. We weren't yet famous or successful, but already we were having the time of our lives. Even when we hit the big time, we didn't want to go out to clubs or celebrity haunts. Not our scene. For us, the best thing about being in a band was being in a band, doing band stuff - not all the trappings that went with it. We liked working on our music, and we liked hanging out together. All this meant we gelled more than most bands ever have the opportunity or inclination to do. Within a couple of months of moving into the band house, I had three new best friends. Their names were Danny, Harry and Dougie. No matter what the future held for us, our friendship was something we now know we could always rely on. ~ Tom Fletcher

Jim MacVeigh had reached the conclusion that the President of the United States was insane. ~ Fletcher Knebel

... violence is an ugly thing and in the calmer moments I racked my brains for other ways to get what I wanted. Better a brain than a fist. A brain can hold anything, from giant things like distant stars and planets, to tiny things we can't see, like germs. ... A brain can hold a whole universe, a fist just holds what little it can grab. Or hits what it can't. ~ C.A. Fletcher

Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX. ~ Mal Fletcher

Fear would never allow him anything so hopelessly silly as hope. Still, fear would keep him alive. It was the only sane emotion in an insane world. ~ Michael R. Fletcher

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention. ~ Mal Fletcher