Slavutych Map Quotes & Sayings

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking. — John Dewey

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech? — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. — Harold Ramis

She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey. — Chris Cleave

Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague. — Torill Kove

In a very romantic moment,
I want only love, not a comment. — Debasish Mridha

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture. — Salman Rushdie

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. — Henry Fielding

And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice. — Andrew Ashling

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. — Henri Bourassa

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell

It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place. — David Benatar

I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky. — John Rzeznik

He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire. — Arthur Slade