Monckton Hembree Quotes

#1. If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

Francis Bacon

#2. Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Julian Schwinger

#3. You cannot attack a servant without attacking his master.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ...

Amitav Ghosh

#5. We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

Robert Genn

#6. We need rest from the inexhaustible, from the mind. There is sleep-and meditation-and death.

Marty Rubin

#7. Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

Lord Byron

#8. If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

Billy Bragg

#9. She stares straight into the camera, eyes narrowed. She wears an expression I've not seen from her before. Disgust? Defiance? She looks nothing like the woman I've known my entire life.

Shannon Duffy

#10. The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#11. It ain't just about writing on some documents,
author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

Toba Beta

#12. At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

Edmund White

#13. You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

Dave Bautista

#14. Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.

David Mackay

#15. In today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

Indira Gandhi