Schwab Moneylink Quotes & Sayings

The judgments which Johnson passed on books were, in his own time, regarded with superstitious veneration, and, in our time, are generally treated with indiscriminate contempt. They are the judgments of a strong but enslaved understanding. The mind of the critic was hedged round by an uninterrupted fence of prejudices and superstitions. Within his narrow limits, he displayed a vigour and an activity which ought to have enabled him to clear the barrier that confined him. — Samuel Johnson

Has anyone ... any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes ... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. — Michael Moorcock

Giving is true having. — Charles Spurgeon

Time travel..will never be impossible forever. — Toba Beta

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind. — Shazia Mirza

[C]ontemporary Jesus research is still involved in textual looting, in attacks on the mound of Jesus tradition that do not begin from any overall stratigraphy, do not explain why this or that item was chosen for emphasis over some other one, and give the distinct impression that the researcher knew the result before beginning the search. — John Dominic Crossan

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too. — Jessica Brown Findlay

vellum, and blotted it. "Why not just shred it since you've won?" Chloe asked, a little miffed that the bet would linger on. "We want to destroy them - or reveal them - all at the same time." He took Chloe's hands in his and faced her. "We were gambling with the most important of our possessions: our hearts. — Nancy Herkness

Any performer tries to perform music as if for the first time, with all that energy and excitement that comes from discovering a new piece--maybe trying to recreate the memory of falling in love with a piece when hearing it first as a child--and just as people regularly say of a brilliant conductor that they seem to conduct as if recreating the energy an audience must have felt when the piece was first played decades, even centuries, before, so too I think we need to communicate our knowledge with the passion we first encountered as children. — Armando Iannucci

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French. — Lou Doillon

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive. — Richard Louv

Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone. — Tracey L. Moore