“A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.”

“The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.”

“Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.”

“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”

“A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.”

“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over p...”

“Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.”

“Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.”

“Be wise. Banish the self-limiting words: I dont know how to I cant do that because I never have any money Every negative phrase you utter in a day, is like poison to your soul. Your subconscious...”

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

“Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you...”

“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”

“There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.”

“The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.”

“Speed is dangerous if your direction is wrong.”