I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Halldór Laxness

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!

Blaise Pascal

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

Anthony D'Angelo

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Rumi

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Charles Wolfe

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Anna Friel

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

David Mitchell

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.

Proverb