Muhtesem Y Zyil Quotes & Sayings

This diversity of social and semi-governmental institutions and organizations gives us not merely an insight into the immense complexity of an urban society, but also an inkling of the huge efforts and even violence required if they are to be disciplined, levelled down and made uniform. We come to realize all the things that must be done to ensure that the hundreds of newspapers and magazines follow the same linguistic line, the theatre repertoires are made to conform, and the libraries and bookshops are purged of the works of writers who have not kept up with the times. What must happen to ensure that museums, whose exhibitions and displays necessarily reflect long-term efforts, accept the inevitability of a new line and a new course? And what must be done to ensure that hundreds of schools and hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren feel ready to accept a new canon — Karl Schlogel

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. — John Cage

I am broken. I am fraud. I am impossible to love. — Jennifer Niven

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years. — Maggie Stiefvater

When
I die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral.
Curiosity
seekers ...
coming to see
if I
am really
Dead
or just
trying to make
Trouble. — Mari Evans

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em. — William Makepeace Thackeray