Part 2 Chapter 1 1984 Quotes & Sayings

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past. — Edmund White

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. — Arthur Honegger

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it. — Hannah More

Bullshit, Ari. You have the harder rule to follow? Buffalo shit. Coyote shit. All you have to do is be loyal to the most brilliant guy you've ever met - which is like walking barefoot through the park. I, on the other hand, have to refrain from kissing the greatest guy in the universe - which is like walking barefoot on hot coals. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The exodus of this whole people from the land of their fathers is a touching sight," Carleton wrote. "They have fought us gallantly for years on years; they have defended their mountains and their stupendous canyons with heroism; but at length, they found it was their destiny, too, to give way to the insatiable progress of our race. — Hampton Sides

You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently." — Sandra Bullock

I agree with you," Marron said quietly. "For what it's worth."
Perry nodded in thanks. It was worth a lot just then. — Veronica Rossi

The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way. — Matthew Henry

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. — Erwin Chargaff

You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both. — Tom Clancy

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them. — Rita Ora

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know. — Robert Sternberg

If one as source is accurate... all is about the pattern... so let's follow the pattern. — Deyth Banger

There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world. — John Fowles

Low places are where the waters of God's mercy and grace come to meet me. — Jasmine May