"Please all, and you will please none."

-- Aesop

#Business Quotes #Literature Quotes #Decision Making Quotes

“I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.”
“You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1991). “Hannibal Lecter, my father”, Semiotext
“Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith”
“Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.”
“That was my favorite dagger." She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak.”
“So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another”
“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”

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