Destanlarin Quotes & Sayings

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk." — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world ... — Erica Jong

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts
I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious
insolent & whimsical I must appear!
one moment flighty and half mad,
the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations. — Fanny Burney

The powers that be not only try to control events,
but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves. — Michael Parenti

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom. — Scott Watson

Then it was you who wounded Aravis?"
"It was I."
"But what for?"
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own. — C.S. Lewis

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. — Charles Caleb Colton

Once you know a thing you can't ever unknow it. — Carol Rifka Brunt