Alanabi Quotes & Sayings

What I want is information; not useful information, of course; useless information. — Oscar Wilde

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. — Alfred North Whitehead

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! — Ferenc Kazinczy

Rising up starkly over the snowy plain, and that the plebs were flocking out — Robert Harris

Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by all who need them. This ability to innovate in language is crucial to every scientific advance, to our intellectual curiosity, to our originality as human individuals, because it is crucial to our ability to communicate new ideas and discoveries. — Andrew Dalby

Forever's a long time." Trent's arms squeeze around me. "Forever's not long enough when it's with you. — K.A. Tucker

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The child was slender as a fleeting hope. — William Peter Blatty

Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?" — Richardson Wright

The night is suddenly vaster, colder, clearer.
All the stars zing; the mountains glitter; towns and villages gather like bright mould in the valley-seams and along the coasts.
Every movement in byre and bunny-hole, of leaf against leaf, of germ in soil and stream, turns and gleams and laminates every other, the whole world monstrously fancy, laced tight together, yet slopping over and unraveling in every direction, a grand brilliant wastage of the living an the dying. — Margo Lanagan

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom. — Publilius Syrus