The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Washington Irving

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

David Mitchell

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.

Everette Dennis

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Jeff Bezos

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Charles Baudelaire

Dreams are a scientific fact.

Robyn Hitchcock

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Harold Bloom

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Claude A. Helvetius

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

James Dyson

It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally rather than statically.

Karl Mannheim