Quotes & Sayings About Madness In The Yellow Wallpaper

Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an object. — Hermann Hesse

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways — Jacque Fresco

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe. — Leopold Sedar Senghor

In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness. — Peter Abrahams

SIR DANIEL was a large man, broad of shoulder ... his eyes were rather small above the double pouches and the look they fixed on Dalgliesh gave nothing away. Looking at his bland, unrevealing face sparked off for Dalgliesh a childhood memory. A multi-millionaire, in an age when a million meant something, had been brought to dinner at the rectory by a local landowner who was one of his father's churchwardens. He too had been a big man, affable an easy guest. The fourteen-year-old Adam [Dalgliesh] had been disconcerted to discover during the dinner conversation that he was rather stupid. He had then learned that the ability to make a great deal of money in a particular way is a talent highly advantageous to it possessor and possibly beneficial to others, but implies no virtue, wisdom or intelligence beyond expertise in a lucrative field. — P.D. James

Teresa handed Thomas a really long knife, almost a sword. He couldn't imagine where she'd been hiding these things, but she now held a short dagger in addition to her spear. — James Dashner

In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists. — Francis Fukuyama

Pretentious
When someone told me
I was all 'pretentious and chichi',
I got quite splenetic over the slur
and almost threw my tulip wine glass of
Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac 1996
right in his face!

I said 'almost'.
Why waste perfectly good wine on a Neanderthal? — Beryl Dov

Hearing anyone think that I'm any form of sexy or handsome is incredibly flattering. — John Krasinski

I am the soul brother to everything that lives, to the giraffe and to the crocodile as much as to man. — Alain De Botton

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing. — Patrick Caddell

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit. — Natalie Maines

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps. — Pierce Brosnan

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. — Samuel Johnson

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy. — Gary L. Francione