Arctic Monkeys 505 Quotes & Sayings

To be a true poet is to become God. — Dan Simmons

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time. — Aung San Suu Kyi

My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. — Meg Greenfield

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton