Ilili Quotes

#1. It was so beautiful I could hardly keep my eyes off it. "Father, it's so big," I said. He grinned. "This is nothing, Tim. Wait till we get down to Verplancks

James Lincoln Collier

#2. If the Creator had said, "Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying "What colour?

Terry Pratchett

#3. Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. [F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#5. The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

Albert Einstein

#6. Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.

John Cage

#7. The dream was on hold. It wasn't dead.

Sarah Morgan