Magdyel Quotes & Sayings

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Maybe he's accepted our fate as well, I tell myself and hope it's true. As much as I'm unhappy with the pairing, I hate that I must be just as much of a disappointment to him. — Shannon Duffy

It's rare, he says, that we "encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment," but "sensible, educated people" often say "with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride" that math is "pure torture" or a "nightmare" that "turns them off. — Edward Frenkel

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. — Sarah Dessen

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo

The state of the whole body depends upon the soundness and vigour of the heart, and the everlasting state of the whole man upon the good or ill condition of the soul. — John Flavel

Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper — Evelyn Waugh

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described. — Anthony Trollope

My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc. — Andrei Tarkovsky

I've been a fan of me ever since. — Tom Kaulitz

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic. — Pope Benedict XVI

I think you've been sleeping on the job; the city isn't exactly paradise," she said caustically. "Every time you clap your hands, another person becoms a statistic. — Carol Oates

Only from God does true revolution come ... the definitive way to change the world. — Pope Benedict XVI