Bo Selecta Quotes & Sayings

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'. — Susan Sontag

Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one. — Chaka Khan

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. — Anatole France

Man knows he cannot embrace the universe with all it's sums and stars. But he finds it unbearable to be condemned to lose the second infinity as well, the one so close, so nearly within reach. Tamina lost the infinity of her love, I lost my father, we all lose whatever we do, because if it is perfection we are after, we must go to the heart of the matter, and we can never quite reach it. — Milan Kundera

The key to such power is ambiguity. In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine. — Robert Greene

Hair by Toni & Guy. Personality by Ronald McDonald — Stephen Kelman

I apologize for my wild imagination. — Bert Cooper

The strange white world lay stroked by silence. No birds sang. The garden was no longer there, in this forested land. Nor were the out-buildings nor the old crumbling walls. There lay only a narrow clearing round the house now, hummocked with unbroken snowdrifts, before the trees began, with a narrow path leading away. — Susan Cooper

There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them. — Niels Bohr

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is. — Theresa May

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along. — Lily King

I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative. — Jason Lewis

She sat still and silent, gazing unblinkingly at Mothermouth. — Erin Hunter