Steve Hofmeyr Quotes & Sayings

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung. — Charles Lamb

He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. — Sarah Dessen

It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind. — Camilla Gibb

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim

Uncle Burley said hills always looked blue when you were far away from them. That was a pretty color for hills; the little houses and barns and fields looked so neat and quiet tucked against them. It made you want to be close to them. But he said that when you got close they were like the hills you'd left, and when you looked back your own hills were blue and you wanted to go back again. He said he reckoned a man could wear himself out going back and forth. — Wendell Berry

I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk. — Victoria Aveyard

Amnesia constrains ambition and inoculates against patience. Still, — Noam Chomsky

America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal. — Nancy Johnson

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much. — Skeet Ulrich

Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically. — Thomas Pynchon