Illformed Quotes & Sayings

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds. — Raymond Chandler

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. — Lukas Foss

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have. — Andrew Zuckerman

Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never
satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I do not see that any progress has been made. — Henri Poincare

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag. — T.R. Wallace

Good morning, bright sunshine, We're glad you are here. You make the world happy, And bring us good cheer." It was something he had heard as a child and, isolated here on Mars, he had remembered it and used it to keep from losing his power of speech. — Various

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

He came forward, holding his belt by one hand. The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and the leather at one side had a lacquered look to it where he was used to stropping the blade of his knife. He stepped down into the roadcut and he looked at the gun and he looked at the boy. Eyes collared in cups of grime and deeply sunk. Like an animal inside a skull looking out the eyeholes. He wore a beard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an illformed notion of their appearance. He was lean, wiry, rachitic. Dressed in a pair of filthy blue coveralls and a black billcap with the logo of some vanished enterprise embroidered across the front of it. — Cormac McCarthy