Bintliffs Gardiner Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein remarked that one writes for oneself and for strangers, which I translate as speaking both to myself (which is what great poetry teaches us how to do) and to those dissident readers around the world who in solitude instinctually reach out for quality in literature, disdaining the lemmings who devour J. K. Rowling and Stephen King as they race down the cliffs to intellectual suicide in the gray ocean of the Internet. — Harold Bloom

The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that. — Lucas Papademos

Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it. — Amit Ray

What out-of-the-way cause graze me grazed a lot,
Undo me loose from the genuine ties of my destiny,
What greater sin than a man's blasphemy?
If any to consume my inward person like the vile when hades burn still,
If I know me well and I'm without doubt for real
Of how I would feel at the triumph of mine deal
What cause to trade the whole shebang, the lot I labored for? — Mpho Leteng

It is perseverance that leads to great accomplishments. — Sunday Adelaja

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year. — Marek Belka

I wrote my histories and observations. I captured my thoughts and ideas and memories in words on vellum and paper. So much I stored, and thought it was mine. I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. Perhaps I sought to justify myself, not just all I had done, but who I had become. For years, I wrote faithfully nearly every evening, carefully explaining my world and my life to myself. — Robin Hobb

How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment. — James Madison

Wealth cannot make a life, but Love. — Robert Herrick

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception. — Johan Huizinga

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. — Joseph Joubert

I believe we are dust and shadows. — Cassandra Clare

The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates. — Anna Brownell Jameson