Vlasis Park Quotes & Sayings

We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is. — Salman Rushdie

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy. — Jorge Luis Borges

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part. — Ben Johnson

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. — Bertrand Russell

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The beloved's features too were standardized in certain adjectives of color and shape and likened to natural objects, fruit and flowers especially. As a result, ingenuity in finding fresh ways to follow the pattern was required in addition to actual poetic powers. The challenge was great and it accounts for the quantity of verbal lovemaking in the blue, addressed to the remote or non-existent tribes of Celias and Delias. — Jacques Barzun