"On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great."

-- Eugene Mirman

#Arrogant Quotes #Sides Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)”
“Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.”

Source : "Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer". Book by Roy Peter Clark, January 10, 2008.
“Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.”

Source : "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.
“It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.”

Source : Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press
“We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' speech at NDP National Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, April 21, 1971.
“One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.”
“It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith”
“Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.”

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