Fatuus Quotes

#1. The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Isaac Newton

#2. The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small-
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

#3. Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

John Adams

#4. My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

Allen Toussaint

#5. Rock-star sweat is like pixie dust - it makes magical things happen.

Rachael Allen

#6. Jesus may love you, but i'm his favourite

Darynda Jones

#7. He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

J.M. Coetzee

#8. It is better to take much pride in the amount of changes you have imparted in the world, than you take recounting the amount of riches you've earned.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#9. A friend of mine from New York asked me what I want to do, and I responded with, 'I want to make movies.' He responded with, 'Guess what? They're not making movies on Martha's Vineyard.' Literally ten minutes later, I was packing my bags.

Austin Stowell

#10. Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

Pat Buchanan

#11. It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

Agnes Varda

#12. I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.

Stanley Crawford

#13. Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. Love is the white light of emotion.

Diane Ackerman