Sundholmen Quotes & Sayings

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside. — Anchee Min

A lovely young Italian girl passed by. Byron tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion. Dr Greysteel could only suppose that he was treating the young woman to the Byronic profile and the Byronic expression. — Susanna Clarke

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me. — Stanley Hauerwas

You know, I'm really not that bright. — Larry David

A book is so soon made, costs so little, and may go so far! Why should we surprised that all human thought flows that way? — Victor Hugo

It's impossible to gauge how much weight someone else places on their past. — Spike Chunsoft

My reputation is a media creation. — John Lydon

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics. — Chuck Palahniuk

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system. — Adam Riess

Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ... — T. S. Eliot

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. — Adam Driver