Asnee Quotes & Sayings

Courage is strength of a strong soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy. — Anthony Powell

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset. — Julia London

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches! — Thomas Malthus

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life. — Jose Parla

A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man's total slavery to clocks. A clock is a convenient device for arranging to meet a friend, or for helping people to do things together, although things of this kind happened long before they were invented. Clocks should not be smashed; they should simply be kept in their place. And they are very much out of place when we try to adapt our biological rhythms of eating, sleeping, evacuation, working, and relaxing to their uniform circular rotation. Our slavery to these mechanical drill masters has gone so far and our whole culture is so involved with it that reform is a forlorn hope; without them civilization would collapse entirely. A less brainy culture would learn to synchronize its body rhythms rather than its clocks. — Alan W. Watts

You roll my log, and I will roll yours. — Seneca The Younger

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. — John Sandford

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. — William Golding