Vw Atlas Quotes & Sayings

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. — Sydney, Lady Morgan

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician. — Juliet Stevenson

He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew also that he had not achieved it and might never do so. He had never admitted either fact clearly to anyone. Before he left Anarres, he had thought the thing was in his grasp.
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He wasn't quite sure he was ready to publish. There was something not quite right, something that needed a little refining. As he had been working ten years on the theory, it wouldn't hurt to take a little longer, to get it polished perfectly smooth. The little something not quite right kept looking wronger. A little flaw in the reasoning. A big flaw. A crack right through the foundations...The night before he left Anarres he had burned every paper he had on the General Theory. He had come to Urras with nothing. For half a year he had, in their terms, been bluffing them.

Or had he been bluffing himself? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose. — Janet Reno

Music is feeling, then not sound;
And thus it is what i feel,
Here in this room, desiring you,

Thinking of your blue- shadowed silk
Is music. It is like the strain
Waked in elders... — William Stevens

I schooled in the Boston area. — Teju Cole