Netherne On The Hill Quotes & Sayings

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?' — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. — Havelock Ellis

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear. — Neal Shusterman

That is what God is for. Worry doesna help - prayer does. Sometimes, — Diana Gabaldon

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. — Bob Riley

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. — Charles Jencks

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail. — Trevor Noah

Where do we get our values from? — George Carlin

I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking? — Walter Dean Myers

Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them. — Inio Asano