Sharrif Quotes & Sayings

Posterity is always just. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have a learned faculty whose job it is to attempt to prevent the incursion of foreign words into the language. I love editing Harry with Arthur Levine, my American editor-the differences between 'British English' (of which there must be at least 200 versions) and 'American English' (ditto!) are a source of constant interest and amusement to me. — J.K. Rowling

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science. — Ahmed H. Zewail

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. — Brian Eno

Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can't change the past, no matter how you try. — Stephen King

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about. — Thomas Mallon

To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being
good for all. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young. — Ryan O'Neal

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? — George R R Martin

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. — Henry Miller