Enganemoslo Quotes & Sayings

And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June! — Robert Browning

She always brought something when she came on Fridays, and this time it had been a book. A Wizard of Earthsea, written by someone called Ursula K. Le Guin, and already after the first few pages I knew that this was an absolutely fantastic book. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result. — Louis Sachar

The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether. To — Neil Postman

The actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb. — Benjamin Constant

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. — Simon Cowell

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Blue doesn't desbribe loss. Grief robs the world of color. Turns it heavy and gray. — Ellery Adams

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime. — Victor Hugo

I love museums but I don't want to live in one. — Tim Cook

How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union. — Douglas J. Penick

I plan to write three words on my arm before entering the Box, hoping that its simple message will plant seed in the Gladers who see it. To remind them, even subconsciously, what it is we fight for. It's a phrase I saw on a cold, dark night long ago, the Crank pits seething behind me. It's a phrase that I believe with all my heart, despite the horrors.

I think you know what it is. — James Dashner

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it. — Peter Zumthor

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off. — Lindsey Graham

A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things. — Ernest Fenollosa