Simuell Quotes & Sayings

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning — Theodor W. Adorno

Do you know the secret of my success, Alamiri? It is not that I am a great warrior, or that I am cunning or strong - though all those things are true. The secret of my success is that I am bold enough to do what nobody else dares. — Shannon McDermott

I'm an artist ... The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me. — Nikki Grimes

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified. — John Pilger

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things. — Lenny Abrahamson

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. — Jack Kevorkian

To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more! — Stephen Kinzer

Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God. — James Bryant Conant

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary. — J. Oswald Sanders

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk. — Alfie Allen

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental. — Wassily Kandinsky

Where did they go?"
"Where the leaves go in autumn," Will said.
Bran looked at him and seemed suddenly to relax; he grinned. "There's poetic, now."
Will laughed. "It's true. Of course, the trouble with leaves is, they grow again ... — Susan Cooper

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences. — Virginia Postrel