Ferment Quotes

You get a wonderful sense of Leonardo's creative ferment... The amount of brainstorming going on underneath the painting is remarkable. - Martin Kemp

When Germany awoke, a man's home was no longer his castle. He could be seized by private individuals, could claim no protection from the police, could be indefinitely detained without preferment of charges; his property could be seized, his verbal and written communications overheard and perused; he no longer had the right to foregather with his fellow countrymen, and his newspapers might no longer freely express their opinions. - Douglas Reed

We wanted to take FOSEP from a group that hosts a couple of events per year to a place where ideas can really ferment. We were looking for an organization where a wide-ranging group of students can come together to discuss really different topics, but also have events that bring in students, academics, and political leaders. - Thomas Robey

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. - Matthew Arnold

Tired of knocking at Preferment's door. - Matthew Arnold

This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first. - William Shakespeare

This could and should have been a 24-hour storyan unfortunate accident. But now I'm not sure that the vice president's appearance (on Fox) on Wednesday, four days after this has fermented, is going to make this go away. - John Zogby