Servius Christus Quotes & Sayings

Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the Creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn't bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces. — Terry Pratchett

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. — Helmut Jahn

So we read books just because they make us happy or because they're fun, because they will make us sound smart, because they'll get us into college or a good job ahead of the others? Or should we use them as a practical guide to recognizing dragons? No, they show us that we have a purpose; that we can be useful in the world, and that is our pleasure. Education gives us minds more awake, and a life that is more than just passing time. — Anne E. White

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living. — Tryon Edwards

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Joseph Roux

Makeup can help you capture a moment. — Carine Roitfeld

Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it. — Joe Queenan

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure. — Douglas Booth

Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time. — Mary Gaitskill

Those terms haunt me, -- in the way of all aspersions that contain a germ of truth. I have been unable to banish them. They sit on my shoulders and mutter in my ears during all my moments of doubt. — Alyson Foster