Plinth Table Quotes

#1. He felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?'
'Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to their nature and their surroundings.

Kate Elliott

#3. To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

Gao Xingjian

#4. Every day can't be the best day
Do what you can right now, don't hesitate
That's why we try to make love and get paid
Take the bad with the good, now let's play

Slug

#5. Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

Walter J. Phillips

#6. Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?

Steve Stevaert

#7. It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

Ishmael Beah

#8. I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

David Eagleman

#9. God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Epictetus

#10. I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

Gina Lollobrigida

#11. I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.

Pauline Frederick

#12. I can only describe reality as I know it. I'm doing my best, and promise to keep trying. Shake on it.

Nathan Filer

#13. Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Paul Bryant

#14. There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time.

Lisa Randall