Accdesk Quotes & Sayings

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. — Walter Savage Landor

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph. — Daido Moriyama

Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal. — Jim Butcher

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:
and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on
so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is in us to plant thine honour where
We please to have it grow. — William Shakespeare

Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him. — P.L. Travers

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson

loved you very much. I might say that of Paris; my memories are heaped there. Somehow I was constantly returning - the train gliding through the endless suburbs or in blue air the airplane banking as, face close to the window, I looked down. — Vintage

I like james patterson — James Patterson

Often, I find, it is better to forget what you know, and to believe only what you can see with your own two eyes. — Sam Taylor

My four golden principles are more important now than ever: take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence. — Robert Harris