Quotes of: Great-discovery Keyword

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular ...

David Copperfield

He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even b...

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How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man and the greatest number of other creatures were suppos...

Indian Summer

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that's not the main distinction of my career. The reas...

Steve Jobs

To understand antiquity’s idea of man, we must examine its gods and heroes, myths and legends. In these we find the classical prototype of genuine man. ... the will to greatness, wealth, power and fame. Anything opposed to it falls short of the aut...

The Lord

She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Every Inch of the Way is a great page turning adventure which is as close as you can get, without actually saddling up and pedalling yourself into the unknown. It takes real magic to turn a great adventure, into a great book. For one thing, most peop...

Love

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.

Chinese

Even ugly faces are worth looking at -- and that is a great comfort for most people.

Chinese

Of listening children have your fears, for little pitchers have great ears.

Dutch

The little stars will always shine while the great sun is often eclipsed.

Ethiopian

Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been donkeys.

German

A hand that is ready to hit may cause you great trouble.

New Zealander

Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

Clockwork Princess

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Doctor Zhivago

As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.

EMPIRE: How to Succeed with Nothing but Passion, Great Ideas and a Wealthy Family

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The Great Crash of 1929

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

The Great Book of Amber

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent