Zounds Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Four inch nails is more like it! — Courtney Love

One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages. — Will Durant

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. — John Wooden

All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back with the sun, its wave turn-over small, delicate and comfortless. The most glorious of all stars hung above the sun's threshold and went out. An hour later the sun governed the earth again, mist-chasing, flower-opening, bird-rousing, ghost-driving, spirit-shepherding back out the various gates of sleep. — Mary Butts

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. — Antonio Tabucchi

This generation is earnestly waiting for you, for a change — Sunday Adelaja

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high. — Wilma Rudolph

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man. — Woodrow Wilson

Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of legally constituted states, invested with all this seeming moral authority of parliaments and congresses and courts of justice! The destructive capacity of an individual, however vicious, is small; of the state, however well-intentioned, almost limitless. Expand the state and the destructive capacity necessarily expands too. Collective righteousness is far more ungovernable than any individual pursuit of revenge. That was a point well understood by Woodrow Wilson, who warned: 'Once lead this people into war and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. — Paul Johnson

I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old. — David Gilmour

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mahatma Gandhi

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit. — Charlie Huston

Though Roose had been in battles, he bore no scars. Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time. — George R R Martin