Bbc4 Extra Quotes & Sayings

Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France. — Humphry Davy

Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible. — Krist Novoselic

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. — Agnes Smedley

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. — Jane Austen

People like the illusion of choice. Gives them comfort in these strange times. — Chuck Wendig

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. — Joseph Campbell

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking. — Dale Carnegie

I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain. — Walter Benjamin