Harper Lee Quotes
When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
Harper Lee
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
Ward Churchill
I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
Paget Brewster
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
Edgar Wright
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
N. T. Wright
Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.
Jens Stoltenberg
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Jack Germond
Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce
He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, 'I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds.'
Plutarch
When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
Harper Lee
