Bouvet Islands Quotes & Sayings

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. — Kevin Kline

Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places. — Martin Fowler

Life is whatever we conceive it to be. — Fernando Pessoa

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. — Edward Dowden

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. — Anne Lamott

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that? — Martin Amis

Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest; for a world that would be safe for future generations. Their devotion must never be forgotten. — Ronald Reagan

'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions. — Natasha Trethewey