Bernires Quotes

#1. Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

A.S. Byatt

#2. The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Samuel Smiles

#3. In the Next Society's corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced.

Peter F. Drucker

#4. And sometimes holes want to get bigger, but Baz was wrong - sometimes they just want to be filled.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. You could rattle the stars.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Jack Nance

#7. A war raged between my jokey and protective brain and my squishy and tender heart. I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

Amy Poehler

#8. May my life someday be so limpid that the Muses will deign to mirror themselves in it and that we can see the reflections of their smiles and their dances skimming across its surface.

Marcel Proust

#9. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.

John Steinbeck

#11. There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

Edwin Land