Hindson And Towns Quotes & Sayings

Elsewhere I have argued that civilizations are divided into three phases. The first phase is barbarism, a time when people believe that the laws of their own village are the laws of nature, as George Bernard Shaw put it. The second phase is civilization, where people continue to believe in the justice of their ways but harbor openness to the idea that they might be in error. The third phase, decadence, is the moment in which people come to believe that there is no truth, or that all lies are equally true. — George Friedman

I'm single, and I hate dating. — Keshia Knight Pulliam

Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation ... — Henry James

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter. — James Anthony Froude

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head. — Tamora Pierce

I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things. — Frank Oz

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. — Pearl S. Buck

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius. — Vladimir Nabokov

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish ... Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original. — William S. Burroughs

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing. — Pablo Neruda

White Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur — Neal Shusterman

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You're only 90. You've never been chased by a torch-carrying mob. — Josef

There's a difference between men who love to eat, and men who hunt for their food. — Dannika Dark