Fireflyer Quotes & Sayings

I never like seeing myself on screen. — Nathan Lane

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. — Joyce Carol Oates

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. — Terry Pratchett

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did. — Kurt Masur

There would therefore have been all the more delight at the birth of the first son William within less than a year of Margaret's death, tinged with more than a little anxiety, in view of the fateful words hic incepit pestis, 'here began plague', in the burial part of the register three months later. Just how close this dread flea-borne disease was to the Shakespeares can be guaged from the fact that their Henley Street neighbour Roger Green lost four of his children and town clerk Richard Symons three. One estimate suggests that the town lost around two hundred, or about fifteen per cent, of its population during this single outbreak. It is a sobering thought how much the world could have lost at this time by one ill-chanced flea-bite. — Ian Wilson

Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority. — James Burke

Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith

Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer.
'Why? Do you eat them, too, then?'
'Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oos. The Kays are too spikey and the zeds are too buzzzy and the ones with the dots get stuck in your teeth and the esses sometimes slide down inside your vest and tickle. — Geraldine McCaughrean