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"Men,' she said rueful, 'are the most absurd creatures on this green earth.' 'But there are camels,' Gabriel pointed out. 'Believe me,' she answered. 'I've taken camels into consideration."
Zoe Archer
"He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves."
Hilaire Belloc
"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety."
Aesop
"Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday."
John McWhorter
"When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking."
James Howard Kunstler
"Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor."
Euginia Herlihy
"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
Albert Einstein
"You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it."
El Greco
"But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness."
Marc Morris
"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
Tennessee Williams
"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
Henry Ford
"A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds."
Benjamin Franklin
"It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society."
Paulo Freire
"I quote others in order to better express my own self."
Michel de Montaigne
"Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing."
Rob Manuel
"When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins."
Sonia Rumzi
"She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess."
Christopher Moore
"The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them."
Umberto Eco
"Another great contribution to science of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A) was his Theory of Light. He said that light reflected by different objects comes to us, but only a part of the rays enter our eyes. That is the reason why we do not see distant objects clearly."
"Failure to curb temperature increases will impact all countries, Ireland included, but with the most immediate and drastic effects being felt, in many instances, by the most vulnerable countries and communities."