Chessell Down Brooch Quotes & Sayings

The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? — H. P. Blavatsky

Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly. — Lydia Davis

Not long ago the world looked on the dark ages with contempt for its brutality, yet here it is again, in full force, a lawless sadism unpolished by all the charms of religion and civilization." Sitting — Diane Ackerman

What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose. — Jules Barnard

Emma, I have had four children! Four of them! Do you understand the state of my vagina? What kind of man goes out on a date with a woman that has four children? — Rachel Higginson

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years. — Michael Connelly

I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick. — Madonna Ciccone

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends. — Jules Verne

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded. — Lloyd Alexander

The manifest discourse, therefore, is really no more than the repressive presence of what it does not say; and this 'not-said' is a hollow that undermines from within all that is said. — Michel Foucault