Nadsat Glossary Quotes & Sayings

Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner. — Debasish Mridha

My childhood was one of both poverty and plenty, suffering and joy. I was taken out of poverty, both financial and emotional, and lavished with love. I was given a gift I could never repay if I lived a thousand lifetimes, it was the gift of hope and trust, given to me by my uncle who believed in me so strongly that I began to believe in myself. — Sara Niles

Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing. — Ellen J. Barrier

I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart. — Gina Carano

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope ... I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen

Memories are stronger than we think. — Vicki Pettersson

The white economic and political elite often failed to recognize blacks as American, just as blacks often failed to recognize their potential for advancement outside of the limited opportunities afforded them by whites. — W.E.B. Du Bois

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children
in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy. — George Eliot

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad. — Angela Carter

But he's nice," Barby objected.

Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar. — John Blaine

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. — Jack Canfield

The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because ... " and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state. — Allen Ginsberg

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries. — Margaret Atwood