"...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that."

-- John Connolly

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”
“I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now.”
“I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.”
“Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.”
“Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy any progress we may make towards succeeding in it; and above all, let us acknowledge the guidance of that Great Being, who has put a spirit in man, and whose inspiration giveth him understanding .”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1790). “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air and Other Branches of Natural Philosophy, Connected with the Subject ...: Being the Former Six Volumes Abridged and Methodized, with Many Additions”, p.43
“I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.”
“I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.”
“There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.”

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