Inkhorn Publishing Quotes & Sayings

If people want to believe in Hollywood movies, let them believe in Hollywood movies. Being romantic is not a disease. — Ioana-Cristina Casapu

In his Treatise on Human Nature, the Scots philosopher David Hume posed the issue in the following way (as rephrased in the now famous black swan problem by John Stuart Mill): No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. — Bob Dylan

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over — Abraham Lincoln

The blighter's manner was so cold and unchummy that I bit the bullet and had a dash at being airy.
"Oh, well, tra-la-la!" I said.
"Precisely, sir," said Jeeves. — P.G. Wodehouse

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too. — Richard Dawkins

My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive. — Anne Lamott

Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable ... ; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks. — Strabo

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton

During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here. — B. J. Daniels

Allowance, by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and proper thing to love them. And in the sect - fairly large and yet unusually choice of Austenians or Janites, there would — Jane Austen

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about. — Jean Piaget

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself. — Brian Sutton-Smith