Jerwood Collection Quotes & Sayings

There was little sign of culture, and the luxury was senseless and haphazard, and was as ill fitting as that uniform. The floors irritated him with their brilliant polish, the lustres on the chandelier irritated him, and he was reminded for some reason of the story of the merchant who used to go to the baths with a medal on his neck ... — Anton Chekhov

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. — Bob Dylan

It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it. — Jim Rogers

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather. — Arthur Conan Doyle

He knew he was not a brave man, but he had a great sense of drama. In some circumstances it could seem the same. Forcing — Jane Yolen

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism. — Bob Latta

No, sweetheart, you don't understand," Noc declared, striding through the door and into the
hall. "They didn't get it. Now they'll get it. — Kristen Ashley

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche. — Shaquille O'Neal

It is not rational when you try to ignore a person because of the one bad traits over hundred good elements — Bhavik Sarkhedi

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been. — Angela Carter

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes. — Isaac Newton

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds to him; the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage. Etsuko however, had in her heart not the slightest interest in these matters. Her soul knew nothing but affirmation. — Yukio Mishima

Sometimes rules have to be broken; sometimes you have to follow your heart. Sometimes doing what you're told isn't always the right thing to do. I'm sure we wouldn't have all these great inventions and philosophies if people always just did what they were told. — Dannika Dark