Expansionists Quotes & Sayings

I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile. — William Butler Yeats

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague. — William McKeen

Molecular genetic evidence (see Chapter 10 for the nature of this kind of evidence) shows that the closest living cousins of whales are hippos, then pigs, then ruminants. Even more surprisingly, the molecular evidence shows that hippos are more closely related to whales than they are to the cloven-hoofed animals — Richard Dawkins

The prison was a shiver running up the spine of the shadowed background. The shiver running up Isabel's spine was only a piece of the haunted, crawling darkness before her. This prison, this disturbed place of long-lost hope, was the place she'd been looking for.
-Isabel, by E. L. Schoeman — E.L. Schoeman

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — Robert Metcalfe

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. — Michael Gove

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame. — Maruf Karkhi

If you're old enough, you're good enough — Martin Tyler