Plecarea La Quotes & Sayings

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. — Giles Foden

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. — Seneca.

THOMASINA:
But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue! — Tom Stoppard

When you drink whiskey, learn to drink it with mindfulness. "Drinking whiskey, I know that it is whiskey I am drinking." This is the approach that I would recommend. I am not telling you to absolutely stop drinking. I propose that you drink your whiskey mindfully, and I am sure that if you drink this way for a few weeks, you will stop drinking alcohol. Drinking your whiskey mindfully, you will recognize what is taking place in you - in your body, in your liver, in your relationships, in the world, and so on. When your mindfulness becomes strong, you will just stop. You — Thich Nhat Hanh

When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way. — Bob Ainsworth

A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate. — Joan Silber

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law. — Thomas Hobbes

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so. — Lord Byron

The world went luscious, and slow, and still. — Marie Rutkoski

The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth. — Gabrielle Tozer

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. — Agnes De Mille

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published. — Rudy Rucker

I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have. — Linus Torvalds