Famous Charles Simeon Quotes & Sayings

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true. — Idries Shah

Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?"
"Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a mean game of chess, and I've been told that I'm a frakkin' Cylon."
"What's a frakkin' Cylon?"
"I don't know, but it sounds really scary when you say it with a Polish Accent. — Kevin Hearne

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson

When I was writing Green Girl,I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and she's very dismissive of the young girl. She writes about the girl as being from this space of bad faith and blankness. I'm more interested in a messy space. — Kate Zambreno

I was thinking of the word Surrealistic ... I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away. — Eva Fuka

None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner's flag are hoisted on it. — Ernst Junger

A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance. — Elsie De Wolfe

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. — Emily Dickinson

I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing. — Harsha Bhogle