Conlang Critic Quotes & Sayings

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. — Ansel Adams

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being a stranger, they've gradually revealed themselves as someone with a wealth of complexities and surprising subtleties that you're growing to love. — Annie Caulfield

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence. — Noam Chomsky

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved. — Annie Besant

Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives. — Rebecca Manley Pippert

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban — William Shakespeare

There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none. — Norm MacDonald

I believe in my music. — Ralph Stanley

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. — Nicolas Chamfort

As in other social matters, members of the Coors family amplify their views with money and organizational involvement. — Russ Bellant

Success and talent aren't even in the same neighborhood. — Jenny Trout

You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission. — Ice Cube