Brauwer House Quotes & Sayings

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. — Alberto Manguel

Better be careful with what you watch or go after cause the same thing that opened Adams eyes closed Abacha's. — Vector

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences. — Esther Hicks

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe. — Robert E. Howard

Fear had also choked out any desire to work magic. It had been my crutch and my cloak, keeping me from exercising my power. Fear had sheltered me from the curiosity of others and provided an oubliette where I could forget who I really was: a witch. I'd — Deborah Harkness

Come on. Keep moving. Your lips are turning blue."
"Keep my lips out of this. — Lili St. Crow

Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me — Abbi Glines

I have been in recent years the author of a bestiary and director of some atlas projects; I've written criticism, editorials, reports from a few front lines, letters, a great many political essays ... , more personal stuff, essays for artists' books, and more ... Nonfiction is the whole realm from investigative journalism to prose poems, from manifestos to love letters, from dictionaries to packing lists. — Rebecca Solnit

The Chinese market is very, very unique. — Niklas Zennstrom

A lot of the general population are wrong. — J.D. Robb

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. — Nick Rhodes

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp. — Eleanor Catton