Themanifestoonhowtobeinteresting Quotes & Sayings

Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding. — Nelson Rodrigues

Writing's much more romantic when its pen and ink and paper. It's... More timeless. and worthwhile. Think about it. There are so many words gushing out into the universe these days. All digitally. All in Comic Sans or Times New Roman. Silly Websites. Stupid news stories digitally uploaded to a 24-hour channel. Where's all this writing going? Who's keeping a note of it all? Who's in charge of deciding what's worthwhile and what isn't? But back then... Back then, if someone wanted to write something they had to buy paper. Buy it! And ink. And a pen. And they couldn't waste too many sheets cos it was expensive. So when people wrote, they wrote because it was worthwhile... not just because they had some half-baked idea and they wanted to pointlessly prove their existence by sharing it on some bloody social networking site. — Holly Bourne

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? — James Joyce

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. — John Lancaster Spalding

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way? — Vincent Van Gogh

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery. — Edsger Dijkstra

I've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast! — Craig Fairbrass