Soumillon Quotes & Sayings

[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms. — George Orwell

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives. — Wendell Berry

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth. — Leif Enger

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations. — Paul Bloom

You have only to look at his eyes. He's still in hell... — Daphne Du Maurier

Powerful men needed their women to be unchallenging, the home should not be an arena for intellectual debate. — Kate Atkinson

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. — Max Beerbohm

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly. — Anthony Burgess

Value the process. — Robert Rauschenberg

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things. — Ariel Pink

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. — Dorothy Parker