Woolhope Village Quotes & Sayings

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika. — Carlos Fuentes

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. — James Q. Wilson

Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages. Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them. If you, dear reader, have an African hue and find yourself led toward water with vanishing shores, seize your freedom by any means necessary. And cultivate distrust of the colour pink. Pink is taken as the colour of innocence, the colour of childhood, but as it spills across the water in the light of the dying sun, do not fall into its pretty path. There, right underneath, lies a bottomless graveyard of children, mothers and men. I shudder to imagine all the Africans rocking in the deep. Every time I have sailed the seas, I have had the sense of gliding over the unburied.
Some people call the sunset a creation of extraordinary beauty, and proof of God's existence. But what benevolent force would bewitch the human spirit by choosing pink to light the path of a slave vessel? Do not be fooled by the pretty colour, and do not submit to its beckoning. — Lawrence Hill

Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity. — Robert Wright

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, "Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that." — Mark Strong

Frustration comes from fighting your own momentum. — Walter Kirn

But kept eyeing Percy as though they were imagining him in a doggie bag. — Rick Riordan

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. — Elliot W. Eisner