Arianwen Parkes Quotes

#1. I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

William S. Burroughs

#2. A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus

Gareth F. Baines

#3. There's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

Simone Elkeles

#4. The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

Rudy Giuliani

#5. The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

Nathalia Crane

#6. We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

Bill Gates

#7. If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

Walter Mosley

#8. What man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conception experience has taught him to see.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#9. After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

Wladimir Klitschko

#10. Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe ... I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Derek Walcott

#11. Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

Leymah Gbowee

#12. Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore De Balzac