Blinds World Somerset Quotes & Sayings

...the child of a wolf may not feel like she has fangs until she finds herself facing the moon, but they are still there the whole time regardless. — Jenni Fagan

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. — Jaron Lanier

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. — Friedrich Schiller

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Having met other immigrants like myself in America, I can say that a great number of us came to our same "Oriental" identity in a similar fashion. We arrived in the United States as Japanese or Korean or Filipino, but over time we became Orientals. — Alex Tizon

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it. — Jurgen Moltmann

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom. — Mal Fletcher

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork. — Ashley Olsen

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might originally have arisen across a multitude of years and been separated by extended stretches of bovine gazing. To meet an author whose books one has enjoyed must, in this view, necessarily be a disappointment... because such a meeting can only reveal a person as he exists within, and finds himself subject to, the limitations of time. — Alain De Botton

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same. — Harriet Lerner

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me. — Amy Tan