Banfi Quotes & Sayings

You won't believe it but
I quench my thirst
by drinking from a mirage. — Abbas Kiarostami

You can know only what you have thought about. — Arthur Schopenhauer

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain. — Edward Abbey

If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind to a halt because we would be spending most of our time cheating, trying to catch the cheaters, and punishing the caught. The world works as it does only because people are not the totally self seeking agents that free-market economics believes them to be. We need to design an economic system that, while acknowledging that people are often selfish, exploits other human motives to the full and gets the best out of people. The likelihood is that, if we assume the worst about people, we will get the worst out of them. — Ha-Joon Chang

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. — Richard Dawkins

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive. — Chris Grabenstein

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. — Francesca Lia Block

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders. — C.S. Lewis

And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful. — Ben Lovett

The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them ... In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses. — Francois Arago

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. — Ambrose Bierce

I can't believe that person on the television is really me. — Keith Moon