Jamie Beaufort Stuart Quotes

#1. The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

Radclyffe Hall

#3. A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

Gautama Buddha

#4. Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

Nawal El Saadawi

#5. Do you mean to say that the story is finished?" said Don Quixote. "As finished as my mother," said Sancho.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#6. He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers.
And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings.
So I am not flying alone now after all.

Elizabeth Wein

#7. Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

Anthony Browne

#8. The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Marshall McLuhan

#9. You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

Peter Thiel

#10. The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. The rivers that sprang from Hvergelmir streamed into the void. The yeasty venom in them thickened and congealed like slag, and the rivers turned into ice.

Kevin Crossley-Holland