Dcruze Quotes & Sayings

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field. — Alexander Fleming

I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word. — Sven Birkerts

The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost. — Jodi Picoult

Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result? — Seth Godin

It was the time of year that makes every poet's heart sing and every lawyer question their life choices. — Portia Porter

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way. — Spencer Kayden

There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason") — W.B.Yeats

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945) — Adolf Hitler

CUSTOMER: Is your mother around ?
BOOKSELLER: ... I run this bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh. Sorry. — Jen Campbell

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it. — Ann Brashares

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends. — Robin Hobb

Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery. — Joseph Campbell