Top 42 Birrell Quotes
#2. I didn't want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.
Dwayne Johnson
#3. Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Augustine Birrell
#5. Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.
Don Lemon
#7. I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
Muhammad Ali
#8. Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.
Jo Coudert
#9. It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
Stanley Fish
#10. Hey, that victory weed was the only smoke I've had in the last six months," Duke protested ... "You know my body is a temple."
"Yeah, but your mouth is an atheist," Ethan shot back.
Evangeline Anderson
#12. A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Augustine Birrell
#13. It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
Augustine Birrell
#15. Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.
Maynard James Keenan
#16. History is the great dust-heap ... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell
#18. The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
Augustine Birrell
#20. We all need to lead where we are planted and shine where we now find ourselves.
Robin S. Sharma
#21. Our house is quiet, small and plain,
and yet its rooms run far and wide.
A hundred pencils, swift as rain,
writing on sheets of beaten gold
would not be quick enough to hold
the strange adventures
shadows hide ...
Nancy Willard
#22. All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi
#23. Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
#26. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
#28. It's like you live your life not understanding anything at all and then you find out there's a whole new subset of things you don't understand.
Heather Birrell
#29. In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
Albertus Magnus
#30. Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
#31. As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
Khaled Hosseini
#32. Poetry should be vital
either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.
Augustine Birrell
#33. I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed
up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be
eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from
the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#34. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine Birrell
#35. I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.
Augustine Birrell
#37. Any ordinary man can ... surround himself with two thousand books ... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
#39. There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
Augustine Birrell
#40. Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim.
Matt Berninger
#42. A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.
Augustine Birrell
