Usyd Library Quotes

#1. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night.

Victor Hugo

#2. All I'm saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

Jimi Hendrix

#4. The hero pays the price.

Lev Grossman

#5. The joy of the Lord is our strength in the Christian life; unbelief is our Kryptonite.

Tony Reinke

#6. I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

John Kitzhaber

#7. Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.

Jack LaLanne

#8. We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Louis De Bernieres

#9. People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

Agnes Repplier

#10. My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

Allison Anders

#11. People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

Jess Walter

#12. We build the stories in our heads. We take words, and we give them power, and we look out through other eyes, and we see, and experience, what others see. I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places? There

Neil Gaiman

#13. There's kind of an unwritten rule, Don't call your captain out at a Ryder Cup, win, loss or draw, you just don't.

Graeme McDowell

#14. Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making.

Robert Macfarlane