"MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later."

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Ambrose Bierce

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Body Quotes

“A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.”
“John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.”
“You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.”
“The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87
“I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.”
“Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.”
“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,”

Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.7, Cambridge University Press
“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”

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