Sir Simon Milligan Quotes & Sayings

Moderation assures mediocrity
nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre
simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow. — Dave Draper

They were proclaiming the end of the world, redemption through penitence, the visions of the seventh day, the advent of the angel, cosmic collisions, the death of the sun, the tribal spirit, the sap of the mandrake, tiger ointment, the virtue of the sign, the discipline of the wind, the perfume of the moon, the revindication of darkness, the power of exorcism, the sign of the heel, the crucifixion of the rose, the purity of the lymph, the blood of the black cat, the sleep of the shadow, the rising of the seas, the logic of anthropophagy, painless castration, divine tattoos, voluntary blindness, convex thoughts, or concave, or horizontal or vertical, or sloping, or concentrated, or dispersed, or fleetin, the weakening of the vocal cords, the death of the word. Here, nobody is speaking of organisation. — Jose Saramago

If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed
were to bump into each other along the road
and go have a cup of tea or whatever,
I think we all know
they would treat one another far different and far better
than a lot of their followers would. — Brian D. McLaren

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful. — Jeff Bezos

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. — Tony Kushner

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing. — Persius

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato

'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed. — Gene Luen Yang

Buddy, you've been warned. — Nick Cave

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media. — Amy Jo Martin

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. — Karen Hughes

You've got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It's insulting. — Stephenie Meyer