Ardalionovitch Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had. — James Alison

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water. — Augusten Burroughs

I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don't know about. — Chris Colfer

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. — George Eliot

Pressing a note on the harpsichord's keyboard would, via an elaborate mechanical action, — Music Sales

One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to be original. But this class of person, as we have observed above, is far less happy than the first. The difficulty is that the intelligent "ordinary" man, even if he does imagine himself at times (and perhaps all his life) a person of genius and originality, nevertheless retains within his heart a little worm of doubt, which sometimes leads the intelligent man in the end to absolute despair. If he does yield in this belief, he is still completely poisoned with inward-driven vanity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. — G.K. Chesterton

Cary and I are working together on another movie, Charlotte's Web. — Thomas Haden Church

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about. — Alice Munro

My father always said, he said, Do not peddle in the affairs of wizards ... — Terry Pratchett