Sylvine Thomassin Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge doth come of learning well retained, Unfruitful else, — Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us. — Peter Ackroyd

What do you whisper to yourself?
Speak and declare positive words to yourself.
You are created for specific mission.
You are special person. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People are incorrigibly themselves. — John Updike

Keep yourself in the moment — Akosua Dardaine Edwards

Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life. — Alecia Stone

That was the way with Casaubon's hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the 'Key to all Mythologies', but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited - a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage - a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.
Thus his intellectual ambition which seemed to others to have absorbed and dried him, was really no security against wounds — George Eliot

Bree stared at the items and the simple silver chain around her finger. Why? The question stayed with her as she paced around the inn, waiting for Alessandro and the boys. Why wouldn't she keep Adriano's locket around her neck. Who was in plot 777 in London and why was it important? Whose address was this? Bree wondered, staring at the slip of paper. Her curiosity was most definitely peaked. — E. Jamie

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline

Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell. — Blake Lively

communication is a hellof a tool — Rick James

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets. — Joseph Campbell

Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of, my dear sir: we sell our souls, only there is no buyer. — Joao Guimaraes Rosa

Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares. — Alice Hoffman

This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent. — Mark Doty