83 North Quotes & Sayings

We know that chasing efficiency too far leads to fragility, and the current excellence models lack explicit minimal governance safeguards and the justification of weighting to be seen currently as universal models of anti-fragility. — Sinan Si Alhir

Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire

One would think the more obtrusive setting would create the greatest impact, but instead it is the solitude that presses with more force. — Elizabeth Crook

The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust — Richard Greenberg

I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that. — Zoe Kravitz

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth. — Margaret Atwood

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake. — David Shannon

My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an actor - were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting. — Jonathan Jackson

This young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves. — Oscar Wilde

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French. — Stromae

I fear nothing for God is with me! — Joan Of Arc

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression. — Mark Twain

Justice is a jagged road. — Rene Balcer