Bogland Summary Quotes & Sayings

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour. — Louis Sullivan

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. — Ann Richards

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. — John Peter Zenger

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader. — Paul Krugman

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer

Don't be afraid; I'll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, and you'll live in my gaze like a mote in a sunbeam. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb. — Sarah Koenig

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life. — Timbaland

All the world's a stage. — William Shakespeare