Liesels Quotes & Sayings

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. — Charles Churchill

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. — Larry Niven

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. — Maria Montessori

It was an odd experience, this bringing to life of pages born of my pen and forgotten. From time to time they interested me -- they surprised me as much as if someone else had written them; yet I recognized the vocabulary, the shape of the sentences, the drive, the elliptical forms, the mannerisms. These pages were soaked through and through with my self -- there was a sickening intimacy about it, like the smell of a bedroom in which one has been shut up too long. — Simone De Beauvoir

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality . — Silvio Berlusconi

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution. — William A. Dembski