Irsyadillah Quotes & Sayings

Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination. — William H Gass

Nature's never quite
Sure she hasn't erred
In her vague design ... — Robert Frost

Young ladies take their notions of our sex from the novels written by their own, and compared with the monstrosities that masquerade for men in the pages of that nightmare literature, Phytagoras' plucked bird and Frankenstein's demon were fair average specimens of humanity.
In these so-called books, the chief lover, or Greek god, as he is admiringly referred to -by the way, they do not say which "Greek god" it is that the gentleman bears such a striking likeness to; it might be hump-backed Vulcan, or double-faced Janus, or even driveling Silenus. He resembles the whole family of them, however, in being a blackguard, and perhaps this is what is meant. — Jerome K. Jerome

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman. — George Edward Woodberry

I don't want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me. — Leslie Browne

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. — Raymond E. Feist

The wrong questions have been asked, by "liberals" and "radicals," by "conservatives" and "orthodox" alike. — N. T. Wright

Ghosts don't haunt people - their memories do. — Anonymous

Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives. — Paullina Simons

Love is the blood that flows through my veins. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For whatever you live is life. — Robert Penn Warren

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. — Conrad Black

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. — Donella Meadows

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. — Publilius Syrus

Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them. — Sam Owen