Short January Quotes & Sayings

A cold, miserable little hamlet on the eastern coast of America called Piper's Grave. — Susanna Clarke

Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty. — Louise Penny

We don't claim perfection; even the best journalism is but a first draft of history. But we bring to the challenge certain basic beliefs that aren't much in fashion these days. We believe facts are facts and that they are ascertainable through honest, open-minded and diligent reporting. We thus believe that truth is attainable by laying fact upon fact, much like the construction of a cathedral. News, in short, is not merely a matter of views. And truth is not merely in the eye of the beholder.
[Letter From the Publisher: A Report to The Wall Street Journal's Readers, 12 January, 1993] — Peter R. Kann

I think New York is the center of fashion, even though L.A. has a lot of heritage and the glamour of Hollywood. — Nina Garcia

Auschwitz was attacked and recovered by the Russian forces on January 27th, 1945. A very short time before that date Buchenwald had been reconquered. Buchenwald was the first concentration camp to be opened and exposed to the public eye. — Javier Gomez Perez

My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English. — George W. Bush

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. — Robert Aris Willmott