Avnet Quotes & Sayings

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society. — William Wilberforce

Give me such shows
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf

I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot. — Jack O'Connell

Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. — Richard Brautigan

One by one, the moths of the night took their release. And she watched them float off like butterflies, silhouetted in the glow of morning. — Ellison Blackburn

Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free. — Michael Ondaatje

I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things. — Walter Russell