Nineteen Eighty Four Newspeak Quotes & Sayings

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"] — Allen Ginsberg

If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother. — Jack Reynor

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness ... For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs. — Sherman Glenn Finesilver

For my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like on who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years. — Charles Dickens

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle.

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. — Steven Adler

Which reminds me, there's a vampire hand in your freezer's ice maker." Seeing my aghast expression, she added, "Don't worry. I double-bagged it. — Jim C. Hines

I can't imagine Nash snickering. I can barely imagine him smiling. I think his default mode is "menace. — M. Leighton

People spend their entire lives fearing the very thing you apparently crave. They do anything they can to delay the process or fool themselves into believing it's farther away than it actually is. With every passing year, with every milestone, they only feel more anxiety, more inclination to defeat this inevitability of nature, only to realize that they've fostered an entire life of crippling fear, wasted on the fixation of its end. And there you sit, begging for it. — Luna DeMasi