Lydell Quotes

#1. The great artist takes what he needs.

Kenneth Clark

#2. Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it.

D.B. Harrop

#3. I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'

Michael Keaton

#4. If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

Lynne Truss

#5. When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

Samuel Johnson

#6. This is what's so annoying about going out with Luke. You can't get away with anything.

Sophie Kinsella

#7. Privilege does not operate without silence.

Junot Diaz

#8. I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

George Weinberg

#9. That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

Nicole Krauss

#10. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

#11. The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

Edmund Burke