Celys Elburn Quotes

#1. Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Barbara Mertz

#2. Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together.

Ray Bradbury

#3. College was for people who didn't know they were smart.

Stephen King

#4. If anyone wishes for entertainment, such as will prevent him feeling solitary even when he is alone, let me recommend the company of dogs, whose moral and intellectual qualities may almost afford delight and gratification.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

#6. It's a strange product of infatuation, she thinks. To want to tell someone about mundane things. The awareness of another person suddenly sharpens your senses, so that the little things come into focus and the world seems more beautiful and complicated.

Alexis M. Smith

#7. If the supranationalist vision of the European project prevails, democracy and self-government will steadily be eroded in the vain pursuit of an unachievable world peace.

Todd Huizinga

#8. I demand from a book harmony as unity and moderation; that determines the choice of words, the type and number of metaphors, the development and conclusion

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very ... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

Sam Taylor-Johnson