Wadham Quotes & Sayings

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely. — El Anatsui

ID cards do not tell the police who is about to commit a suicide bombing. — John Wadham

... zebra crossings were rather like Bosnia's "safe zones": places where, if you die, you may simply die with the knowledge that your killer was in the wrong. — Lucy Wadham

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it. — Patty Griffin

I'm here because I've lost my head. My mind is unhinged. That's what the doctors say. — A.G. Howard

You're better off," d'Aiglemort said dryly. "Steel and faith are an unnatural mix. — Jacqueline Carey

People with a plan see and wait for the right time. — Marlon James

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead. — Tariq Ali

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings. — Celia Imrie

We made this! It's so beautiful. The word lay beyond the rest of the team's list of formal descriptors. It seemed to have a real referent; the new woman apparently meant something when she used it. Beauty might even have had some physical reality, some selective advantage conferred over the last billion or so years. But what formal rules the quality adhered to, what behaviors it meant to elicit, not even Spider Lim's body could begin to guess. — Richard Powers

Unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere. — Wallace Stevens

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation. — Leonardo Boff

Halloween this year falls on a Friday. That should be helpful for retailers because the party carries into the weekend. — Richard Hastings

He was a noisy robust little man with a gleam of real talent concealed in the messy obscurity of his verse. But because he did his best to shock people with his monstrous mass of otiose words (he was the inventor of the "submental grunt" as he called it), his main output seems now so nugatory, so false, so old-fashioned (super-modern things have a queer knack of dating much faster than others) that his true value is only remembered by a few scholars who admire the magnificent translations of English poems made by him at the very outset of his literary career, - — Vladimir Nabokov

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself. — C.S. Lewis

Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable. — Zygmunt Bauman