Arnottianus Quotes & Sayings

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew. — Jay Maisel

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. — Sam Abell

Cromwell's statement, "No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going, — Robert M. Pirsig

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant. — Octavia E. Butler

Sitting at the table with the kids, and being told off like a kid, has liberated me; my disenfranchisement has empowered me. — Nick Hornby

Can I possibly not understand myself that I'm a lost man? But
why can't I resurrect? Yes! it only takes being calculating and patient at least once in your life and
that's all! It only takes being steadfast at least once, and in an hour I can change my whole destiny! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession. — Eve Hewson

Do you know what made me fall in love with you?" George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled that he should ask her this now. "I heard you laugh, down the hall, just before I got to Spanish class that first day. I couldn't see you. I just heard this fabulous laugh, like a whole octave, top to bottom. And I had to hear it again. — Mary Doria Russell

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on! — Erica Jong

It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am. — Thom Browne

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful. — Niccolo Machiavelli