My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing
Hilaire Belloc
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again
Mark Twain
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
Marcus Garvey
Matilda told such dreadful lies,It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,Had kept a strict regard for truth,Attempted to believe Matilda:The effort very nearly killed her.
Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales
The Rich arrived in pairsAnd also in Rolls Royces;They talked of their affairsIn loud and strident voices...The Poor arrived in Fords,Whose features they resembled;They laughed to see so many LordsAnd Ladies all assembled.The People in BetweenLooked underdone and harassed,And our of place and mean,And Horribly embarrassed.
Hilaire Belloc, The Garden Party
The last Christian died on the cross
Friedrich Nietzsche
It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
Ron Wyden
I shoot the HippopotamusWith bullets made of platinum,Because if I use leaden onesHis hide is sure to flatten 'em.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
Victor Hugo
When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
James Dyson
Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.
Warren Farrell
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
Maxim Gorky
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
Rob Sheffield
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Philip Roth
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Alexandre Vinet
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
Norman Mailer
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
Carson Daly
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.
To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.
Hilaire Belloc, The Footpath Way
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
William Shakespeare
I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
Kina Grannis
Child! Do not throw this book about;Refrain from the unholy pleasureOf cutting all the pictures out!Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
Hilaire Belloc, dedication to Th
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.
Sir John Mortimer, Books and Boo
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley, As quoted in: W
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
Doug Coupland
I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
Robert Benchley
Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Les Brown
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Edmund Burke, speech on the peti
Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true.
Stephen Richards
According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They said they were on their way to a large city where they were going to kill 10,000 people. The man asked Plague if he was going to do all the work. Plague smiled and said, No, I'll only take care of a few hundred. I'll let my friend Fear do the rest.
Anon.
The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
Alain de Botton, On Love
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.
Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia (184
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
Virginia Woolf
Politics ruins the character.
Otto von Bismarck
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
Sir Arthur Eddington
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Without justice, courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
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