Spermaceti Whale Quotes

#1. With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

Rosa Luxemburg

#2. A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

Gao Xingjian

#3. I like mythology - anything historical.

Cassie Steele

#4. Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

John Dryden

#6. "Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet now?" "That's because your feet aren't empty," said the doctor.

Sam Ewing

#7. Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

Alistair Begg

#8. I probably wouldn't have been fearless enough to go on such a trip with so little money if I hadn't grown up without it.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

Oswald Chambers

#10. Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
[Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

Horace

#11. My work is always a ready-made ... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

Ai Weiwei

#12. She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.

Per Petterson

#13. The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

George Ayittey

#14. We need to increase education budgets.

Malala Yousafzai

#15. Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Charles Dickens