Zouwou Quotes & Sayings

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own. — Isaac Newton

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. — Samuel Smiles

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that. — Shigeru Miyamoto

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me. — Billy Corgan

We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it. — Guillaume Faye

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. — Terry Eagleton

Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise. — Hayley Williams

do what we will, it's only making use o' the sperrit and the powers that ha' been given to us. And — George Eliot

People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood. — Michael Keaton

I want winners. I want people who want to win. — Mike Singletary

As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing. — Laura Vandervoort

If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations. — George H. Smith

I love the word 'fantasy' ... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not love it for the idea of commercial fantasy. Commercial fantasy, for good or for ill, tends to drag itself through already existing furrows, furrows dug by J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert E. Howard, leaving a world of stories behind it, excluding so much. There was so much fine fiction, fiction allowing free reign to the imagination of the author, beyond the shelves of genre. That was what we wanted to read. — Neil Gaiman