Avowedly Def Quotes & Sayings

It is well for us that we live at the present time, when everybody is logical and consistent. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten. — Tove Jansson

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress. — Mary Harron

Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession. — William Wickenden

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late,
To leave behind this place so negative and blind
And cynical - and you will come to find that,
We are all one mind capable of
All that's imagined and all conceivable,
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through,
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason,
Before we pine away — Maynard James Keenan

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
"You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners ( ... ) — Jane Austen