Axact Quotes

#1. Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Francis Bacon

#2. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. Failure is only a temporary fall. You must rise up any time you fall.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

Michelangelo

#5. For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

Ruth Westheimer

#6. More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Susan Stewart

#7. Persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science ...
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Thomas Carlyle

#8. I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over.

Jay-Z

#9. That's Force fucking Recon to you," Nick said to the dead woman.

Abigail Roux

#10. We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

Jonathan Ive

#11. Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

Amit Ray

#12. Everybody is agnostic, most just don't know.

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