Cricklewood Clarion Quotes & Sayings

You did not want things for yourself. That made you small. — Patrick Rothfuss

Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfillment. But of this bread men die. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. — Karl Lagerfeld

Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it. — Khalil Gibran

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. — Samuel Johnson

The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species — David Attenborough

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good. — Hugo Weaving

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God. — Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

Don't walk next to me, it looks gay. — Jonah

The laws of physics that deal with inertia also apply to humans, such that situations tend to remain the same over time. — Del Suggs

I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that. — James Gray

Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! — Charles Dickens

He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn't. And there was never an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. — Terry Pratchett