Pifflingly Quotes & Sayings

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction. — Herb Alpert

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. — Alan Turing

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do. — Jason Robert Brown

That would be a beautiful lie to believe, — Cassandra Clare

I don't move away from grief, rather through it. — Taya Kyle

One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them ... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate. — Margaret E. Knight

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender. — Paulo Coelho