Boeotia Artifact Quotes

#1. Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds. Under certain emotional circumstances I can stand the spasms of a rich violin, but the concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#3. The first prerequisite for fine literature is that the writer must see the language not as a transparent medium for self-expression or the representation of reality, but as a medium one must struggle with to make it do one's bidding.

Minae Mizumura

#4. What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Daniel C. Dennett

#5. God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Richard Rohr

#6. Passionate grave thought,
belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic.

Hilda Doolittle

#7. Smoking is suicide by instalments.

H.M. Forester

#8. You don't want to go right, if everyone thinks you're going to go right. You go left, on purpose. Sometimes you can't explain why, and you can't explain what left looks like, but you just do it.

Katee Sackhoff

#9. But, that guy who quit also missed the real point. Good things come through grit and hard work, and all things worthwhile have a cost. In the case of the SAS, the cost was somewhere around a thousand barrels of sweat.

Bear Grylls

#10. In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

Kofi Annan

#11. frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse

Jane Austen

#12. We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Jeremy Rifkin

#13. There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

John Wooden

#14. I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

Graham Chapman