Preferati Quotes & Sayings

Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now. — Jonathan Stroud

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else. — Viggo Mortensen

But you, Percy - you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. — Rick Riordan

I have lived in Ivan and die in Malina. — Ingeborg Bachmann

Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us. — Brian D'Ambrosio

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed. — Sandy Berger

Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind. — Matt Haig

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling. — K.d. Lang

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it. — Idries Shah

I've never had a fetish, but I'm thinking about starting one. — Emma Chase

It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man. — Charles Darwin

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society. — Maria Montessori

An Irishman talks best when there is competition. — Mary Doyle Curran

All Nature wears one universal grin. — Henry Fielding

And so, like many others, their honeymoon was a failure; yet they would not admit this to themselves, and they did not realize the significance of the failure until long afterward. — John Edward Williams