Seraphita Art Quotes & Sayings

Walking out of an A level paper isn't funny."
"It's not that I'm laughing at."
"So what is it?"
"No one ever tells you when you're doing all that course work and revision and timed essays and study skills that it's an option."
"But it isn't an option."
"It is, because I just took it. — Rosamund Lupton

ADAMS. This is a great work, Sir. How are you to get all the etymologies? JOHNSON. Why, Sir, here is a shelf with Junius, and Skinner, and others; and there is a Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch. ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman. — Samuel Johnson

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders. — Michael Horton

And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet. — Christopher Marlowe

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was orbital, it was mag, it was beyond the ult. — J.D. Robb

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself. — Eckhart Tolle

I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.' — Marissa Mayer