Konstantin Poly M Sik Neve Quotes & Sayings

181. Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl. In the dialogues Plato uses the word to refer to everything from an illness, its cause, its cure, a recipe, a charm, a substance, a spell, artificial color, and paint. — Maggie Nelson

I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Do you have a name?" "Ygritte." Her — George R R Martin

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects. — William Shakespeare

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit. — Bruce Dickinson

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others. — Brian Eno

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. — Terry Tempest Williams