Bladon House Quotes

#1. The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#2. Be the solution, not the problem.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

Charles Stross

#4. Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.

Troy Dumais

#5. The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from his own predicament: an anniversary party full of academics.

Zadie Smith

#6. I find it so strange that I throw people off-center.

Ving Rhames

#7. Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.

Victor Burgin

#8. The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.

Clement Greenberg

#9. It's official, then. Everyone knew I was gay before I did.

Liz Kessler