Bhaenchud Quotes & Sayings

One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new. — Jonathan Ive

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. — Carl D. Anderson

What was he thinking about? He was old, but he hasn't found peace.

Had he realized that a long life didn't automatically bestow wisdom? — Carsten Jensen

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished — Stonewall Jackson

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book. — Walter Mosley

This does not necessarily mean that the man whose path at this moment crosses mine will be personally endowed with each and all of the marvellous qualities which we are accustomed to attribute to our representations of God, that he will be a perfect image of the divine Majesty, a striking sign of the Presence. But then, what about ourselves, as we look doubtfully at this man? Do we ourselves perfectly mirror the Lord in our bodies, our hearts and minds, our behaviour? What matters in our meeting is not the quality of the image that he and I present of God, still less any reflections upon this quality, but precisely the setting free of that image in his depths as in mine — Henri Le Saux

The English language has been thrust upon Americans. And it is wrong. As static and immobile as are the English, just so ever-moving are Americans. Here is a huge country. Not a mere island. Naturally people move. And they need a moving language. A language that can interpret American life. Nouns and adjectives won't express American life. They are too weak, too immobile. But verbs, adverbs, prepositions and the like, ah, they are moving, just as Americans. Obviously we cannot suddenly junk the English language and adopt some other tongue. English is too connotative, too close to us. Our problem is to adapt the English language to American needs. To make it move with us Americans. That is the problem
to write things as they are, not as they seem. our aim must be not to explain things, but to write the thing itself, and thereby in itself be self explanatory. — Gertrude Stein

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be. — Alice Steinbach

Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what to tell you, help. Help. — Salman Rushdie

In a way, it is I who must do the grunt work. I want to work with kids ... I hope we can grow so much that someone else can take care of what I do now. — Sofia Hellqvist