Iurop Quotes & Sayings

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration ... — Leonard Bishop

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. — Aldous Huxley

The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal. — Bruno Walter

To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life can only be live with grace and gratitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's because we're dropping our empathy that we're nicer to each other, just that the drop doesn't seem to be causing any harm. — Paul Bloom

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven. — Bertrand Russell

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began. — Emma Goldman

A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its "surroundings" in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. "Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition. — Greg Egan

The pink tips were pure punk, but the bleach blond roots were positively Malfoy-esque. — Cookie O'Gorman