Quitstart Quotes & Sayings

It is for this reason that Aristotle recommends that the writer begin "in the middle of things" and fill in the exposition as he can. But for purposes of discussion it will be useful to treat the three components separately. — John Gardner

The ketch belonged to an angry millionaire, who hadn't been willing to lend it until he received a personal telephone call from the President of France. (His wife had put on her tiara to listen to the call on an extension.) — Peter Dickinson

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed. — Francis Atterbury

One of Zaphod's heads looked away. The other turned round to see what the first was looking at, but it wasn't looking at anything very much. — Douglas Adams

It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge of this explanation for themselves. They know that law has merely utilized the social feelings of man, to slip in, among the moral precepts he accepts, various mandates useful to an exploiting minority, to which his nature refuses obedience. Law has perverted the feeling of justice instead of developing it. — Pyotr Kropotkin

What are those glorious dots? Those, dear one, are forget-me-nots! — David Paul Kirkpatrick

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden. — Joaquin Sorolla