Dwarf Par Lagerkvist Quotes

#1. Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.'
'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought ... '
'History ... ' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.

China Mieville

#2. All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

Juvenal

#3. impact. Even on the phone you can hear a change in someone's voice or a pause to let you know how they are interpreting what you've said. In text, your mistake just sits there marinating on the other person's screen, leaving a lasting record of your ineptitude and bozoness.

Aziz Ansari

#4. She's an old, close-to-the-ground, jelly-belly woman with bald patches showing through her wispy grey hair. It doesn't seem like she's got a lot going for her, but she's still smiling. Been around the sunflowers too long, I'd say.

Bill Condon

#5. A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

Cynthia Weil

#6. Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me?

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.

Yvon Chouinard

#8. Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

William Ernest Henley

#9. All human beings are entrepreneurs.

Reid Hoffman

#10. I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

David Foster Wallace

#11. The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure.

Natsuo Kirino

#12. He doesn't know where he is. He thinks this is his normal life. I don't have time to ruminate about how depressing it is that my brother can't tell the different between normalcy and eternal damnation.

Cynthia Hand

#13. Write a biography of him. I had recently published one

Walter Isaacson

#14. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge

Benjamin Disraeli