Thomas De Quincey Famous Quotes
"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone."
Thomas De Quincey Quotations
"To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
Napoleon I
Writing only leads to more writing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
Meg Chittenden
"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."
Leonard
"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
Christina Georgina Rossetti
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
Walt Whitman
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
Mark Twain
"So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain."
Plato
"Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams."
Robert J Kibbee