"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Language Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”
“I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.”
“We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.”
“I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.”

Source : "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.
“My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.”
“...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature's appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is left for the imagination.”
“It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by Europe, that I think many Portuguese became a little bit more left-leaning, and so did I too, I could not not care about the situation. I had to deal with it in some way.”
“Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.376, Courier Corporation

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