Yaqub Zurufcu Quotes

#1. Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Socrates

#2. Why are you smiling?'
'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

Victor Hugo

#4. My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.

Glen Duncan

#5. We should recognize that they reflect things that we're doing, not just things that are happening to us. We should understand that, although some of the human-caused factors may seem virtually inexorable, others are within our control.

David Quammen

#6. The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

Victor Hugo

#7. English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

#9. People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

Mick Jagger

#10. I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Pablo Picasso

#11. My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

Nancy Pelosi

#12. Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

Albert Gubay

#13. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Phillip E. Johnson