General Byng Quotes & Sayings

The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence. — James Calvert

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life. — Orhan Pamuk

I was going to make the little hound here part of your display, but you know, against all odds, I've found myself growing to like the little guy! You were going to be a girl transforming into a werewolf, but now I think you'll be part of my Hansel & Gretel display. I needed a trespassing little snoop! — Christa Carmen

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi. — Zeno Vendler

Art is the questioning of culture — Gerard Mortier

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise. — Eliza R. Snow

People who are afraid to sacrifice somebody have no business talking about a common purpose. — Ayn Rand

You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who's new to the business. — Richard Branson

The trade-off between speed and image quality is a key constraint of first-person action games, and the job of developing a workable engine involves constantly optimizing both elements. Gamers dream of the day they'll be able to haul their arsenals through three-dimensional environments of photographic clarity, playing 'Myst' with a meat ax. — Marc Laidlaw

It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate. — Kendare Blake

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: DEU32:03 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. — Anonymous

A great man is the man who does something for the first time. — Alexander Smith

It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the family that it always has been. But there's no comparison with Hollywood as such. — Kate Winslet