Dabeir Quotes & Sayings

His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John — Mary Doria Russell

Hugh stretched out one hand and stroked the fur. It felt cold and rich, it crackled with silky static electricity. Stroking it was like stroking a clear autumn night. — Stephen King

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? — Frances Wright

We should conceive of poetry worthily, and more highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. — Matthew Arnold

Something very much like nothing anyone had ever seen before came trotting down the stairs and crossed the room.
"What is that?" the Duke asked, palely.
"I don't know what it is," said Hark, "but it's the only one there ever was. — James Thurber

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs. — Jim Morrison

Blow, blow, ye western wind ... Christ, that my love were in my arms and I in my bed again. That my love Catherine. That my sweet love Catherine down might rain. Blow her again to me. — Ernest Hemingway,

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate. — Ed Sheeran

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people. — Okakura Kakuzo

Why would any sane person lower his or her standard of living just to multiply the number of copies of the Homo sapiens genome? Nobody agreed to this deal: the Agricultural Revolution was a trap. — Yuval Noah Harari

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds. — David Bowie

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me. — Sheila Heti

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. — James Anthony Froude

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there ... Not the other way around! — John Cleese