Berners Auction Quotes & Sayings

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours. — Tom Stoppard

He used to be from our village, one of us. After he died, the spirits made a mistake and sent him off far away to a village of whites to enter into the body of a little baby who was born of a white woman instead of one of ours. But because he belongs to us, he could not forget where he came from and so he came back." The villager added generously, "If he is a bit awkward on the drums, this is because of the poor education that the whites gave him." Carrington's life in Africa spanned four decades. — James Gleick

Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But
on the top of that
he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it. — Aleister Crowley

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. — Linda Ronstadt

Love was not a comfortable feeling. No wonder I tried to avoid it. — Fabian Black

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. — Susie Bright

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else. — Jon Foreman

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record. — Martin Parr

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep. — Henry Reed