Moufflets Quotes & Sayings

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense. — Wilfred Trotter

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. — Edward Norton

Watch some kids, watch them play. You'll see they're just little adults, only they don't know all the rules and tricks yet. — Graeme Simsion

If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words. — Wallace Stevens

Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It's natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily. — Kate Morton

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown. — Sarah Silverman