Unplume Quotes

#1. To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.

Owen Feltham

#2. Fie! Fly! Be gone, little manling!" she spat at him. "Take your tainted She and be gone!

Graham Austin-King

#3. Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#4. I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

Steve Reich

#5. Many friends are the key to happiness

Epicurus

#6. How on earth could a complete stranger be expected to tease out the inner logic of something he himself had dreamed up, to find a way to make it come alive?

Han Kang

#7. I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.

Andrew Wylie

#8. I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.

J. Kenner

#9. Ah, Ireland ... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. I don't understand," says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time."
And yet they do.

E. Nesbit

#11. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Jane Fonda

#12. It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

Melissa Bank

#13. Best day of my life hasn't happened yet. But I knot it. I see it everyday.

John Green

#14. Let men say what'er they will
Woman, woman, rules them still.

Isaac Bickerstaff

#15. The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

Betsy Byars

#16. She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.

D.H. Lawrence