Arlequino Quotes & Sayings

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Oh you're one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell God to forget about answering that particular prayer because it's just happened. That's one of my pet hates, I'm sorry. — Elizabeth Newton

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. — Tom Clancy

My rule now is, never read anything that is not worth remembering. — J. Reuben Clark Jr.

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one? — Kara Swisher

Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within? — Julia Kristeva

May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a warm bath of despair. Once you've handed the reins over to despair, to mix a metaphor just a teeny bit, your job is done. You don't have to sweat it any more, you've taken yourself out of the game. Despair is the bench, and you are warming it. — Donald E. Westlake