Megv D Angolul Quotes & Sayings

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. — Jay-Z

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis's comments on them, and burned them. — A.S. Byatt

For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders. — Walter Cronkite

Crocodiles are basically Triassic animals living in the present. Sharks are Triassic. So we know it has happened before. — Michael Crichton

Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man. — Orson Scott Card

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. — Carl Jung

The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken. — Joshilyn Jackson

But he's in shackles, right? You beat him?"
"I like to think I beat him in a moral sense, in that he's an assassin and I'm not, but apart from that, no, not really. — Derek Landy

The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them. — Thomas Crum

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid. — Laura Mvula

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart. — Sara Bareilles