Chieng Garden Quotes

#1. Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

William Wordsworth

#2. Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Mark Twain

#3. On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: Royalty, heroism, and the streets.

Jay-Z

#4. Like a ten-year-old looking at a sweaty Popsicle he'd like to lick.

ReGina Welling

#5. Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

Paul McCartney

#6. There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and 'on hold', can be triggered into action.

Sirhan Sirhan

#7. The dwarf, the evil counselor, the twisted little monkey demon. I'm all that stands between them and chaos.

George R R Martin

#8. I hated you," said Laurent. "I hated you so badly I thought I'd choke on it. If my uncle hadn't stopped me, I would have killed you. And then you saved my life, and every time I needed you, you were there, and I hated you for that, too.

C.S. Pacat

#9. Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

Gabriel Lippmann

#10. No one's going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?" Eric was nearly in tears. "But it said her face launched a thousand ships - " "That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind. "Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly.

Woody Allen

#12. The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

Martin Winterkorn

#13. Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

David Chalmers