Bearers Of Lyre Quotes & Sayings

There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I just said it for the beauty of the style. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends. — Charles Frazier

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second. — Douglas Adams

Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways in which work in the cognitive sciences could inform our understanding of central epistemological issues, my whole idea of what the philosophical enterprise is all about began to change. Quine certainly played a role here, as did Putnam's (pre-1975) work in philosophy of science, and the exciting developments that went on in that time in philosophy of mind. — Hilary Kornblith

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously. — Reza Aslan

I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language. — Agatha Christie

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. — Alexander Sutherland Neill

He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes. — Malorie Blackman

I think there will be PCs at every price point. — Bill Gates

Woman wants control, man self-control . — Immanuel Kant