Unreadability Quotes

#1. The Principia's reputation for unreadability spread faster than the book itself. A Cambridge student was said to have remarked, as the figure of its author passed by, "There goes the man that writt a book that neither he nor anybody else understands.

Anonymous

#2. While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.

Martin Amis

#3. Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

Lorrie Moore

#4. No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#5. The months and years of struggle were suddenly canceled by three weeks of exercise and some visualization and focus.

Karan Mahajan

#6. Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

Jay Griffiths

#8. And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky