Basil Ii Quotes & Sayings

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings. — Kingsley Amis

We have things of value, but you could never find them because you don't even know how to look. — Ally Condie

I've learned to let things roll off my back. — Leighton Meester

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations — Milan Kundera

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men. — Mark Twain

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea. — Emily Dickinson

But I didn't dream that, that interview would be the door through which I should pass from darkness into light, from isolation to friendship, companionship, knowledge, love. — Helen Keller

I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular. — G.K. Chesterton

It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence. — Rigoberta Menchu

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. — Roland Barthes

The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. — Michel De Montaigne

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand. — Tom Duff