"Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Writing Quotes #Scholarship Quotes

“When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.”
“It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.”
“Language is a machine for making falsehoods.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.51, Penguin
“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”
“Novelty in all things is charming.”
“The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.”
“Actually, on a slightly more serious but kind of parallel level, I remember being on Loveline before both hosts ascended into loftier places in the culture. But I remember being shocked by Dr. Drew. He went into this extended monologue about how anyone with a baby voice is probably the victim of child abuse or has some daddy issue. As an intellectually curious person, all I could think is that there isn't any clinical evidence about that. But to be the guy wearing the doctor's hat on the radio and teaching everybody about this? It just seemed like a parody of good advice.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.”

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