Parlour Walls Quotes & Sayings

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery. — Matthea Harvey

When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

(Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!) — Orson Scott Card

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. Potter Stewart, — Max Allan Collins

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao's boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

How else would you be able to talk, kitten-cat, if you were not thinking, hmmm?' said George to his charge.
But it was Francois ... who answered:
... 'Ah oui ... but there are a lot of two-legs [people] who do not think very much at all but who always seem to do most of the talking.' (p124) — Jem Vanston

The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that. — Reed Mullin

Till the rest of his days were done, Abner Marsh remembered that moment, that first look into the eyes of Joshua York. — George R R Martin

About a year ago, an entire suburb in this man's jurisdiction turned from the police and erected a substitute agency. To all intents and purposes, several thousand people here have severed their relationship with the South African Police Service. He appears not to have noticed. — Jonny Steinberg

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. — Diane Duane