Iggulden Books Quotes & Sayings

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life. — Lee Carroll

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. — Jorge Luis Borges

Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber. — Richard Corliss

The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but — Amor Towles

Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand [ ... ] The great millions of Africa, and of Asia, have grown impatient of being hewers of wood and drawers of water, and are rebelling against the false belief that providence created some to be menials of others. Hence the twentieth century has become the century of colonial emancipation, the century of continuing revolution which must finally witness the total liberation of Africa from colonial rule and imperialist exploitation. — Kwame Nkrumah

We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood ... who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened! — Andy Andrews

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. — Paulo Coelho

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. — William Ewart Gladstone

The bike struggled showing signs it was feeling the strain especially in the bodywork which we constantly had to fix with Alberto's favored spare part - wire. — Ernesto Che Guevara

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival. — Maria Montessori

Noll tried to register Gaussian Quadratic with the US Copyright Office at the Library of Congress, another body perplexed by the works on display. His request was originally denied "since a machine had generated the work."10 He explained that a human being had written the program that, through a mix of randomness and order, generated the work. The Library of Congress again declined: randomness was unacceptable. Noll finally argued that although the numbers produced by the program appeared random, "the algorithm generating them was perfectly mathematical and not random at all," and the work was finally patented. — Zabet Patterson

The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky. — Allegra Huston