Cornflower Blue Quotes

#1. Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

W. W. Rouse Ball

#2. My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. I know for sure that I will always compare every city skyline to New York's. Just as I will always compare every boy to Daniel.

Nicola Yoon

#4. Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

E.L. Doctorow

#5. I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

Daniel Johns

#6. Vic had gotten rid of the Hoff years ago. The Hoff was a loser, and Trans Ams were oil-leaking shitboxes. She didn't miss him.

Joe Hill

#7. A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

Andre Dubus

#8. I am the steel no enemy can shatter'
I am the magic no dark power can defeat.
I am the rock upon which evil breaks like waves.
I am Fey,warrior of honor, champion of Light.'
the warrior's creed

C.L. Wilson

#9. was why Lex and Dallas and every last one of these crazy, beautiful, hopeful motherfuckers were worth fighting and dying for. They'd seen the good in him before it was even there to see.

Kit Rocha

#10. You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch
and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

I. F. Stone

#11. If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

Jacques Derrida