Cygnolina Quotes & Sayings

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans. — John Lahr

It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes. — H.P. Lovecraft

In order to fail, first you have to try. — Jasper Fforde

According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to
live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime. — David Letterman

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history. — Oliver Jeffers

I think he's jealous. — Cassandra Clare

Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law. — Edward Said

Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don't need but would buy anyways. — Iveta Cherneva

I love mysticism - it's such fun. — Jerry Hall

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. — Clare Short

Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers. — Charles De Gaulle

I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. — W. Somerset Maugham

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?
— John Milton