Modemy Allegro Quotes

#1. We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

Lily Koppel

#2. Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid's confinement.

Marcel Proust

#3. No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

T. E. Hulme

#4. How did we ever get to a point where we need investigative journalists to tell us where our food comes from and nutritionists to determine the dinner menu?

Michael Pollan

#5. When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

Brad Goreski

#6. A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

Michael Foot

#7. What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.

Mark Billingham

#8. the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

Peter Kreeft

#9. You are a half-blood," Zoe Nightshade said. Her accent was hard to place. It sounded old-fashioned, like she was reading from a really old book. "One of thy parents was mortal. The other was an Olympian."
"An Olympian athlete?"
"No," Zoe said. "One of the gods."
"Cool!" said Nico.

Rick Riordan

#10. Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself ... That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.

Andrew Comiskey

#11. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Sylvia Plath

#12. Diplomacy is living in state.

Oliver Herford

#13. We're in a give-and-take relationship, Felicity." He pulled me off the table. "So give. On your knees.

J.J. McAvoy

#14. Perhaps if he stumbled onto a bath and a tailor he could even be considered handsome.

Katherine McIntyre

#15. People shouldn't be throwing away their history when it's still doing archery practice forty miles up the road.

Natasha Pulley