Ashmolean Collection Quotes

#1. I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Heidi Julavits

#2. If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

Denis Diderot

#3. To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

Joseph Glanvill

#4. George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it's your show. Whereas at festivals it's very strict, like if you go like two minutes over they get ready to pull the plug kind-of-thing. They're both good and bad.

Flume

#6. is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve.

Jonathan Swift

#7. By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

Reginald Heber

#8. If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

James Richardson

#9. I've learned never to discount possibilities because of the odds - because all things are possible with God.

Irene Hannon

#10. It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.

Robert Genn

#11. I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Edie Falco