Moriones Festival Origin Quotes & Sayings

To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold. — Zadie Smith

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. — Robin Cook

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities. — Barack Obama

A guava tree in bloom, for instance, lost in the pages of a good novel, can bring delight with its fictional perfume to any number of real rooms. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

He chose for his hero a youth nourished in dreams of liberty, some of whose actions are in direct opposition to the opinions of the world, but who is animated throughout by an ardent love of virtue, and a resolution to confer the boons of political and intellectual freedom on his fellow-creatures.
On Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam — Mary Shelley

The neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic. — Dion Fortune

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. — Anthony Burgess

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas. — Leslie Marmon Silko

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind. — Edward Gibbon