Lepidopterist Quotes & Sayings

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently. — Yousef Saanei

When asked his name, he introduced himself as Shams of Tabriz and said he was a wandering dervish searching for God high and low. — Elif Shafak

I have always had a number of parts lined up in case the muse failed. A lepidopterist exploring famous jungles came first, then there was the chess grand master, then the tennis ace with an unreturnable service, then the goalie saving a historic shot, and finally, finally, the author of a pile of unknown writings- Pale Fire, Lolita, Ada- which my heirs discover and publish. — Vladimir Nabokov

Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care? — Asif Kapadia

At least I'd learn the lesson that friends can make up for the failings of your family. — David Levithan

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior ... — James Thayer

One would think that having grown up broke would make one desperate for financial stability, eager to rest in the economic security of a good job. Rather, it gave me the freedom to take chances. I knew how to get by on next to nothing. — Michelle Tea

They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate. — Monique Wittig

Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms - two shot-guns, a heavy rifle, and a light revolver-carbine - the thunderbolts of that pitiful Jupiter. — Joseph Conrad

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. — Jean Rostand

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive. — Robert Silverberg

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. — Dale Carnegie

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure. — Asti Hustvedt

For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences — G.K. Chesterton

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world ... full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is a tie between men to have read the same book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. — Vladimir Nabokov

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! — Edwin Hubbel Chapin