Jim Telfer Lions Quotes & Sayings

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism ... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'. — Hamid Dabashi

Pink was for girls.
Girly girls who wore flavored lip gloss and read magazines and talked on the phone lying on their perfect, lacy bedspreads with their feet in the air. Girls who spent six months looking for the perfect dress to wear to the school formal.
Girls who liked boys. — Lili Wilkinson

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. — James Thomson

We continue to learn or we dig a rut and furnish it. — Stephen King

I might get arrested, but I wasn't likely to get dissected. This is my life. — Seanan McGuire

I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it." — Richard Bach

A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will
over and over. — Haruki Murakami