Simplon Quotes

#1. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

Paul Murray Kendall

#2. Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

Horace Mann

#3. Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.

Jamshyd Godrej

#4. Are you going to want sex with me now?" she hastily asked to distract him. "Because I already gave at the office

Kresley Cole

#5. It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

David Brin

#6. Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

Sara Sheridan

#7. She sat by the side of the road, in the snow, all bodiless and afraid, waiting for the happiness to start.

Neil Gaiman

#8. I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

Ken Follett

#9. I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

Triple H

#10. If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

Barbara Tuchman

#11. The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth