Fecklessness Defined Quotes & Sayings

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where I don't use the high hat, and I don't use any crash cymbals. It just makes for an interesting sound because you don't really notice it when it's not there, but if it was there, you would definitely hear it. — Sune Rose Wagner

Contrary to the general picture of the decline of Asia and the rise of the West, the Chinese economy was buoyant in the eighteenth century, developing its own local variations and with trade links across Southeast Asia. Silk, porcelain and tea from China continued to be in great demand in Europe (and in the American colonies) even though in 1760 the Chinese confined all Western traders to the port city of Canton. Tribute-paying neighbours as near as Burma, Nepal and Vietnam (and as far away as Java) upheld Beijing's solipsistic view that the Chinese emperor, presiding over the central kingdom of the world, had the right to rule 'all under heaven. — Pankaj Mishra

Well, as my dad would say, it means she's out of this shithole. — Alice Sebold

My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I've come unequipped with the ability to disarm them. — Maggie Stiefvater

Music is soul of the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own. — Leonardo Da Vinci