Merlin The Poisoned Chalice Quotes & Sayings

The question 'Why poetry?' isn't asking what makes poetry unique among art forms; poetry may indeed share its origins with other forms of privileged utterance. A somewhat more interesting question would be: "What is the nature of experience, and especially the experience of using language, that calls poetic utterance into existence? What is there about experience that's unutterable?" You can't generalize very usefully about poetry; you can't reduce its nature down to a kernel that underlies all its various incarnations. I guess my internal conversation suggests that if you can't successfully answer the question of "Why poetry?," can't reduce it in the way I think you can't, then maybe that's the strongest evidence that poetry's doing its job; it's creating an essential need and then satisfying it. — Richard Ford

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain. — Tom Bissell

I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that. — Naomie Harris

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay

Believe it when you see it.
Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room. — Brian Turner

Each technology has its own merits, and therefore it may be more useful to leave aside this crusading view of the electronic word vanquishing the printed one and explore instead each technology according to its particular merits. Perhaps — Alberto Manguel

You said you were done with long-distance relationships," he reminded Adrian.

"That was before I went and fell in love with you. — Annabeth Albert

They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Have
you ever kissed a guy?"
"I've kissed my dad and my
granddad. — Alison G. Bailey

And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them. — Robert Carlyle

I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers. — Kreayshawn