Unequalled Quotes

#1. When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

Emanuel Ax

#2. Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Goldwin Smith

#3. As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

E.B. White

#4. What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease,

Paul Verlaine

#5. The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in which some people would have seen nothing but tedium and emptiness, she stepped forth as an author, breathing gaiety and youth, robed in dazzling light.

Elizabeth Jenkins

#6. She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

Henry James

#7. The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to reenact the play was irresistible.

Niall Ferguson

#8. One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

Jim Carrey

#9. If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?

D.J. MacHale

#10. Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#11. I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Tom T. Hall

#12. It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

Kevin Systrom

#14. [T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

Jonathan Tropper

#15. My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.

Cory Booker

#16. I am sick of having opinions. I am sick of talking.

Susan Sontag

#17. You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest.

Willa Cather

#18. The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

Lily Cole