Ignotas Quotes

#1. Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

Ovid

#2. I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

Francisco Goya

#3. Architects are the new comedians.

Simon Doonan

#4. We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

Mary Augusta Ward

#5. Everything costs something everyone pays

Mark Twight

#6. I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Linda Sue Park

#7. The smell rewards the care.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Now seen ... now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy ... though it's here and gone.

Saigyo

#9. Well you know I've been in that place too where you worry about what everybody thinks of you, am I popular, do people care, are they looking at me, all that stuff. That's a drag, man. Having to worry about fitting in, am I cool enough to ANYTHING.

Joan Jett

#10. An efficient plan will involve a flame thrower

Anders Breivik

#11. Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

Ramez Naam