In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer… — Seth Copy Share Image
If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
