Filkina Quotes & Sayings

Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart's blood must gem with red beads the brow of the combatant, before the wreath of victory rustles over it. — Charlotte Bronte

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. — Allen Lane

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves. — Ken Stott

Spencer Brown puts it) once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence (i.e., prior to emergence state) of the world is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a condition to be either proud or ashamed of. — Alan W. Watts

I always think 12 times before saying anything. — Brenda Blethyn

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it. — Armand Assante

Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution. — Don Winslow