Siltala Nauticat Quotes & Sayings

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. — Fred Saberhagen

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule. — Minnie Driver

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking.
- Lena — Jacqueline Woodson

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at allthat is the want of tastethat is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything. — Edward Elgar

Most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths. — Helen McCloy

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate. — Carl Jung

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. — Benito Mussolini

I think it's very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop. — Chen-Ning Yang

Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces. — Terry Pratchett

Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks. — Paul Pearsall

What is the beginning of rage, the beginning of anger? Not dislike, but love. — Zia Haider Rahman