Quatre Epices Quotes & Sayings

I know how it feels to be told that it's all in your mind. It drives you mad. — Sally Brampton

I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction. — George Carlin

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. — Colin Trevorrow

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill. — Munia Khan

Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.' — Geraldine Brooks

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both. — Cormac McCarthy

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. — William E. Gladstone

It made sense to Abdul that in a polyglot city, people would sort themselves as he sorted his garbage, like with like. — Katherine Boo

Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet — Albert Schweitzer

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story. — Nancy Kress

We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth. — Randy Alcorn

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' — Noam Chomsky

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire. — Plautus