Amateuristically Quotes & Sayings

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world. — Salman Rushdie

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents. — Chuck Berry

Around 6 p.m.: the apartment is warm, clean, well-lit, pleasant. I make it that way, energetically, devotedly (enjoying it bitterly): henceforth and forever I am my own mother. — Roland Barthes

Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone. — Debasish Mridha

People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and spoke with some French people there, and they were saying: 'I went to English school, but at home it was always French, and that's going to be the way it is for my kids.' It's important for them to keep that language alive. — Marc-Andre Grondin

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience. — William Kingdon Clifford

I freely admit that I took great license in writing 'The Dark Queen,' more so than my other historical romance novels. This is largely because I viewed the book as a fantasy novel as much as an historical. I do feel that writers should strive for as much accuracy as possible but, in the end, remember that we are writing fiction. — Susan Carroll

Trinity Royal, which was being nuzzled by a dozen small launches nosing into her flank like piglets suckling on a sow. — Bernard Cornwell

I told you, I don't like to share."

That made her grin. "I don't either. That part was never an act."

~Trance/Rik — Sydney Croft

I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: 'Repeal and replace Obamacare.' That was not the mandate of the voters. If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different. — John McCain

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. — Marshall McLuhan

No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death. — John Cheever