Bracklow Quotes & Sayings

According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it places all of the power with the audience, sometimes breeding resentment on the part of the author. 'I can see it in myself and in other young writers,' he told McCaffery: 'this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.' Wallace expressed his 'hostility' by writing unwieldy sentences, refusing to fulfill readers' expectations, and 'bludgeoning the reader with data'
all strategies he used to wrestle back some of the power held by modern audiences. — Dorothy M. Kennedy

All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them. — Thomas Carlyle

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition". — Linus Torvalds

I think every time a movie gets made, it's a miracle. I would love to get to a point where it became easier and it wasn't so much of a struggle to get it done or finished. — Chris Colfer

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying. — Francis Gary Powers

Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers ... Restlessness and discontent are vital things ... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Three little words. My world stands still, tilts, then spins on a new axis. — E.L. James

If I were to say, "this isn't a sacrifice" at this moment, it would reek of a lie...
... But I hope I'll be able to really say that in a few years' time. — Yumi Unita

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the simplest possible equipment and a microscope. Biochemical approaches were not much in vogue, and running gels impossible at first. — Tim Hunt