Seigneurial Dues Quotes & Sayings

Failure is an event, never a person. — William Brown

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital. — Martin Scorsese

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. — Lord Melbourne

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. — Ted Chiang

What I really love about them ... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history ... I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment ... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy? ... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone ... I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it ... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past. — Isabel Wolff

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. — Allen Ginsberg

She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light. — John Connolly

I should take a photo.'
'No. Just remember it, and us in it. — Ali Shaw

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country. — Margaret Thatcher

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. — Benjamin Banneker

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country. — Anand Sharma

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it. — Tina Yothers

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. — George Wald