Smash Up Wiki Quotes & Sayings

If there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead. — Rosalie Maggio

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills. — Nathan East

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink. — David Livermore

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God. — John Bunyan

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them. — Cyril Connolly

Recovery begins from the darkest moment. — John Major

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation. — Daniela Pestova

Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
My charges false and all too rashly made. — Ovid

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use...

{Writing about Isaac Newton} — Christiaan Huygens

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. — Irakli Okruashvili

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity. — Raymond Chandler