Jolila Quotes & Sayings

[T]he superstitions to be feared in the present day are much less religious than political; and of all the forms of idolatry I know none more irrational and ignoble than this blind worship of mere numbers. - William Lecky, Democracy and Liberty — Bryan Caplan

The big lesson about loving someone was coming to understand that when love ended for one person, it ended for both people. — Elizabeth George

People like him had these weird thick skins. You insult them to their face and it whistles past their ears. They take irony as compliments and barely even notice your wittiest retorts. When — Niels Saunders

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. — Muddy Waters

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. — Franz Wright

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so. — Diane Duane

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion. — Matt Smith

I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made. — Bertrand Russell