The Hobbit Dragon Smaug Quotes & Sayings

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. — Octavio Paz

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world. — Mary McFadden

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me. — Damien Hirst

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that. — Chris Robinson

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.' — Christopher Poole

I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run. — Emily Dickinson

Our passions are ourselves. — Anatole France

People do write books. — Kevin Pietersen

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented. — Janet Flanner

Breathing hurt my shoulder, screaming hurt, but it was all I could do. — Trish Marie Dawson

Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace. — Margaret Thatcher

I do lots of other drugs but I smoke pot maybe 5-10 times a year now. I used to smoke it all the time, but I don't, and I haven't for awhile. That's just because it makes me - and I'm not saying this about everybody else - but it makes me kind of dumb and self-conscious. — David Cross