Skinerov Quotes

#1. He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

#2. Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.

Julian Assange

#3. The only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear a thing you say. How can they? They are asleep. So don't put anyone to sleep, and you will probably do okay.

Max D. Adams

#4. Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#5. No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

Wangari Maathai

#6. They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

Ayn Rand

#7. The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Rollo May

#8. How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?

Sylvia Plath

#9. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Charles A.E. Goodhart

#10. There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

Anne Carson