Hossfeld Scroll Quotes & Sayings

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions. — John Ambrose Fleming

Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up. — Salman Rushdie

So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful. — Sabaa Tahir

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? — George Michael

Even though I want to put distance between strangers and myself, I can't stand being alone. — Ryohgo Narita

What do you want to trust me with tonight?"
A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words.
"Anything," I whispered back. — Shelly Crane

Turning the planet into what astrophysicists called a pocket nova. — Alan Dean Foster

Hyacinth. Please forgive me. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past. — Bill Bruford

I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it. — Emraan Hashmi

We made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving. — Marcel Proust