Secularity Defined Quotes

#1. John Longridge, the cook at Harley-street, had suffered from low spirits for more than thirty years, and he was quick to welcome Stephen as a newcomer to the freemasonry of melancholy.

Susanna Clarke

#2. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore De Balzac

#3. In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

Alan Watts

#4. We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

Martin Parr

#5. Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Martin Amis

#6. When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Peter Lynch

#7. The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.

Chris Morris

#8. Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home

Aliko Dangote

#9. In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#10. Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.

Philip Gourevitch

#11. I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

John Kendrick Bangs

#12. Let's not muddy the brook ; Perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance, Or a pitcher is being filled in a village, Or a dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook.
The folk upstream understand the water.
They did not muddy the brook. We also must not muddy the brook...

Sohrab Sepehri

#13. The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

Alex Winter

#14. In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Serj Tankian