Amenities Define Quotes & Sayings

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power. — Alston Chase

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book. — Philip Reeve

If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace," I said. "But I will love you like no other can. — Steven E. Wedel

What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind. — Robert Grudin

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror. — Patrick Suskind

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting. — Arnold Newman

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at. — Anthony Minghella

It's not as if it'd taste any different under all that curry," said Burleigh. "I was at a dinner in their embassy once, and do you know what they made me eat? It was a sheep's - — Terry Pratchett

Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like — Natalia Lizardo

Miles swallowed icy spit. Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed. — Lois McMaster Bujold