Horhe Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only to easy to imagine ... — Terry Pratchett

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"
the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved. — Honore De Balzac

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument. — Dick Dale

The first thing to consider is education. This is divided into two parts, music and gymnastics. Each has a wider meaning than at present: 'music' means everything that is in the province of the muses, and 'gymnastics' means everything concerned with physical training and fitness. 'Music' is almost as wide as what we should call 'culture', and 'gymnastics' is somewhat wider than what we call 'athletics'. Culture is to be devoted to making men gentlemen, in the sense which, largely owing to Plato, is familiar in England. The Athens of his day was, in one respect, analogous to England in the nineteenth century: there was in each an aristocracy enjoying wealth and social prestige, but having no monopoly of political power; and in each the aristocracy had to secure as much power as it could by means of impressive behaviour. — Anonymous

As sub-assistant-treasurer in this archipelago, there are conversations I've been meaning to have. We could have those now, young Loam. — N.D. Wilson

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun. — Roger Ebert

Serving humanity is not beneath spiritual pursuit — Sunday Adelaja

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things ... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. — Don Bluth

It was a tough movie to make, with lots of stunts and injuries and craziness and night shooting and dust. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

creative geniuses weren't qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. They simply produced a greater volume of work, which gave them more variation and a higher chance of originality. — Adam M. Grant

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand. — Ezra Pound

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — Clay Shirky

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In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. — Terry Pratchett