Individualised Quotes

#1. There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#2. Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels ... tacky.

Edmund White

#3. People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

Gordon Strachan

#4. Suddenly, without any real change in her, she ceased to be beautiful. She looked merely like a woman who would have been dangerous a hundred years ago, and twenty years ago daring, but who today was just Grade B Hollywood.

Raymond Chandler

#5. Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you. An illusion is what needs all the bells and whistles to make itself appear grander than it really is, which is just a trick that can be explained.

Jeff Guinn

#6. I think I'll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be. I can change on a whim and be so many different girls and none of them has to be me.

Katja Millay

#7. It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.

Sharon Gannon

#8. Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.

April Henry

#10. If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

P.L. Travers

#11. Was Levi Myers real? Did he really exist? Or did my sad, black heart create him because it longed for a little bit of color?

Brittainy C. Cherry

#12. Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

Ace Antonio Hall

#13. Don't give up. You have invested a lot of time already.

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again.

Harold Frederic

#15. If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

Robert Smith

#16. I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

John Lee Hooker