Goldsmiths Department Quotes & Sayings

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of. — Will Smith

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. — George W. Bush

(in some cases) ... a good memory is unpardonable — Jane Austen

Of all the fires, love is the only inexhaustible one. — Pablo Neruda

And a Fool is supposed to be wise? — Robin Hobb

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself. — Barry Webster

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy. — Michael Bloomberg

I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
Of home. — Sanober Khan

I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often. — Jaye Davidson

Faces can lie. Backsides can't. — Yoko Ono

I should add, however, that, particularly on the occasion of Samhain, bonfires were lit with the express intention of scaring away the demonic forces of winter, and we know that, at Bealltainn in Scotland, offerings of baked custard were made within the last hundred and seventy years to the eponymous spirits of wild animals which were particularly prone to prey upon the flocks - the eagle, the crow, and the fox, among others. Indeed, at these seasons all supernatural beings were held in peculiar dread. It seems by no means improbable that these circumstances reveal conditions arising out of a later solar pagan worship in respect of which the cult of fairy was relatively greatly more ancient, and perhaps held to be somewhat inimical. — Lewis Spence

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum. — Rosanne Cash

Future comes by itself, progress does not. — Poul Henningsen