It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
"It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky."
Iain M. Banks
"Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words."
Donalyn Miller
Inspiration
Simplicity is one complication that I can live without.
Anthony T. Hincks
"Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart."
Andrew James Pritchard
Inspiration
Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words 'family' and 'home' without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to examine them, though, the words seem hollow, seem to rattle at my feet like empty cans.
Yōko Ogawa
"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."
Unknown
"Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it a bestseller."
Abigail Landsbrook
"Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature."
Craig Venter
"The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed."
Anonymous
Inspiration
I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.
Author
"What's optimism? Said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell."