People From Manchester

"“The rain is as contrary as I ever was,” she said. “It came because it knew I did not want it.”"

"“Eh!” he said, and as he crumbled the rich black soil she saw he was sniffing up the scent of it, “there doesn’t seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there’s flowers an’ such like, an’ such lots o’ friendly wild things runnin’ about makin’ homes for themselves, or buildin’ nests an’ singin’ an’ whistlin’, does there?”"

"“How many things she knows, doesn’t she?” “Eh!” said Martha. “It’s like she says: ’A woman as brings up twelve children learns something besides her A B C. Children’s as good as ’rithmetic to set you findin’ out things.’”"

"Yorkshire’s th’ sunniest place on earth when it is sunny."

"At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for some one. She was getting on."

"In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little."

"So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment."

"“Eh!” she said, “but you are like an old woman. Don’t you care?” “It doesn’t matter,” said Mary, “whether I care or not.” “You are right enough there,” said Mrs. Medlock. “It doesn’t.”"

"Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery Mary might have learned some pretty ways too."

"[T]o be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people."

"If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."

"Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage."

"I hate & detest love stories, but it seems that you must have their grinning sentimental skeletons to hang your respectable humanity and drapery upon. (in a letter to her editor Richard Watson Gilder in summer, 1881)"

"Three thousand dollars would certainly have bought a house in Knoxville...I want my chestnuts off a higher bough. (in a letter to her sister Edith in April, 1876)"

"Some very fine day/ I will step up your way,/ At least, if so you agree./ With two tales I've been writing, full of murders and fighting --/So I hope you'll be glad to seem me. (in a letter to her cousin in March, 1863)"

"Would you maybe / Come dancing with me / 'Cos to me it doesn't matter if your hopes and dreams are shattered""

"The future's mine and it's no disgrace, cos in the end the past means nothing. I feel a little down today, and I ain't got much to say And if I stumble, catch me when I fall / 'Cause, baby, after all / You'll never forget my name."

"Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday / I've got a lot of things to learn What's the matter with you? / Sing me something new The cold and wind and rain don't know / They only seem to come, and go away Stand by me / Nobody knows the way it's going to be There is one thing I can never give you / My heart will never be your home""

"I'll have my way, in my own time / I'll have my say, my star will shine."

"Round this town you've ceased to be / That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy Guess who's gonna take the blame for my big mouth Into my big mouth / You could fly a plane""

"I met my maker / I made him cry / And on my shoulder / He asked me why / His people won't fly / Through the storm / I said listen up man, they don't even know you're born All my people / Right here, right now / D'you know what I mean? Coming in a mess / Going out in style / I ain't good looking / But I'm someone's child No one can give me the air that's mine to breathe""

"How many special people change? / How many lives are living strange? / Where were you while we were getting high? People believe that they're gonna get away for the summer/ But you and I/ We live and die/ The world still spins around we don't know why. Someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide / In a champagne supernova in the sky.""

"She's got a sister / God only knows how I missed her / And on the palm of her hand is a blister She's got a brother / We don't get on with one another / But I quite fancy her mother / And I think that she likes me She's got one in the oven / But it's nothing to do with me""

"All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade""

"Here's a thought for every man who's tried to understand what's in his hands Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say / Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay / As he faced the sun, he cast no shadow. As they took his soul they stole his pride""

"Some might say that sunshine follows thunder / Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine / Some might say that we should never ponder / On our thoughts today 'cos they hold sway over time Some might say / We will find a brighter day Some might say they don't believe in heaven / Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell" *"

"I took a walk with my fame down memory lane / I never did find my way back" Feel no shame / 'coz time's no chain""

"Slip inside the eye of your mind / don't you know you might find / A better place to play So I'll start a revolution from my bed / Because you said the brains I had went to my head. Please don't put you're life in the hands / Of a rock 'n' roll band / Who'll throw it all away""

"I don't believe that anybody / Feels the way I do / About you now All the roads that lead you there are winding / And all the lights that light the way are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you / But I don't know how. Maybe / You're gonna be the one that saves me""

"You've got to say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way""

"I hate the way that you are so sarcastic, and you're not very bright. You think that everything you've done's fantastic, your music's shite it keeps me up all night. And it will be nice to be alone, for a week or two, but I know then I will be right, right back here with you""

"I dream of you / And all the things you say / I wonder where you are now I need you now / You've knocked me off my feet We talk of going old / But you say "Please don't Let me be the one / Who shines with you / In the morning / We don't know what to do""

"I was looking for some action / but all I found was cigarettes and alcohol Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for? You might as well do the white line""

"These could be the best days of our lives / but I don't think we've been living very wise.""

"You're the outcast / You're the underclass / But you don't care / Because you're living fast You're the uninvited guest that stays to the end. I'll be scraping your life from the sole of my shoe tonight" Bring It On Down"

"I need to be myself / I can't be no-one else "You can have it all but how much do you want it?""

"There we were / Now here we are / All this confusion / Nothing's the same to me I can't tell you the way I feel / because the way I feel is also new to me""

"Tell me how high / Do you think you'll go / Before you start falling?" The people here / They don't hear you calling How does it feel / When you're inside me?""

""Maybe you're the same as me / We see things they'll never see / You and I are gonna live forever."

"I live my life in the city / There's no easy way out / The day's moving just too fast for me" I live my life for the stars that shine/People say it's just a waste of time. In my mind my dreams are real You're not down with who I am / look at you now, you're all in my hands tonight""

"Twitter is the playground of fucking idiots .... quite literally I’d put the pair of them [Donald Trump and Liam Gallagher] in a driverless car each so they crash into each other."

"Fuck Jeremy Corbyn. He's a communist."

"Do I think we should leave [the EU]? I don't think we should be given a vote. I see politicians on TV every night telling us that this is a fucking momentous decision that could fucking change Britain forever and blah, blah, blah. It's like, okay, why don't you fucking do what we pay you to do which is run the fucking country and make your fucking mind up. What are you asking the people for? 99 percent of the people are thick as pig shit. They didn't fucking ask us for a referendum when they were going off to war, did they? No, fucking assholes."

"The music industry doesn't like mavericks. The reason why there are no bands now is because in the 90s Oasis and Primal Scream, Blur, and all those... (bands)-- we were the mainstream. And what the music industry doesn't like is the mainstream being a load of fellas on drugs, drunk half the time on a Tuesday. They don't like that. They like people like Harry Styles. (Where they can) say, Wear this dress and shut it. Wear this, sing that, go home. And that's kinda what happened."

"Another reason to vote Labour is if you fucking don't and the Conservatives get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back and live here, and let's face it none of us want that."

"People hate fucking cunts like Phil Collins, and if they don't, they fucking should!"

"If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England then I’d have won a shitload! I did enjoy it but it kind of got to the point where I’d done them all and that was it, there was none left and I just thought 'Can’t be arsed any more.’"

"Jack White, right, has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts. He's supposed to be the poster boy for the alternative way of thinking... I'm not having that, that's fucking wrong. Particularly Coca-Cola, it's like doing a fucking gig for McDonald's.""

"He's now trying to make social comment, this is the guy who hid who he actually was from the public for 20 years. Now, all of a sudden, he's got something to say about the way of the world. I find it laughable. That's even before you get to the song, which is diabolical."

"I don't know, I think he's just going senile, isn't he?"