Nhti In Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods. — Salman Rushdie

I am pretty sure the myth of me
Is better than the reality. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism. — Enver Hoxha

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. — Mario Batali

It kind of seemed like, as long as he was alive, there was still hope that he could fix things. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

work, maximum fun". — Lily Clarke

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves. — Carl Sandburg

He / thought of women. / What is it like to be a woman / listening in the dark? Black mantle of silence / stretches between them like geothermal pressure. / Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as / lava. She listens / to the blank space where / his consciousness is, moving towards her. Lava can / move as slow as / nine hours per inch. [ ... ] She wonders if / he is listening too. The cruel thing is, she falls asleep / listening. — Anne Carson

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. — Simon Van Booy

Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance ... — George Washington

At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.' — Lottie Moon

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street. — Carl Andre

I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing. — Jorja Fox

They will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminding. And it is not true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them anything, you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they will know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellow-men." Socrates — Joshua Foer

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn