Ankerstjerne Syllabus Quotes & Sayings

We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate. But when the Gods explode, or err, or dissolve into flying clouds of gas, or shrink, or expand, or whatever else their fates might demand, then the minuscule items of their substance may in their small ways express - not protest, which of course is inappropriate to their station in life - but an acknowledgement of the existence of irony: yes, they may sometimes allow themselves - always with respect - the mildest possible grimace of irony. — Doris Lessing

Happy people have always inspired me. — Marty Rubin

Being a man with a big heart, a man of consideration, a man who wants to do the right thing by people, and a follower of Christ (who said "Love thy enemy" -- though I would add "from a distance")[...] — Flavor Flav

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. — Vincent Gallo

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. — Northrop Frye

We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace. — S. Kelley Harrell

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight — Abby Clements

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that. — Blake Lively

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless. — Daniel Webster

Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain- it decays and disappears. — J. D. Bernal

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns. — Nathan Wolfe