Tanila Rug Quotes & Sayings

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. — Terry Eagleton

Free should be the scholar - free and brave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. — Mignon McLaughlin

Shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us — Ann Patchett

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. — Paul Klee