Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

Mark Twain

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Keith Miller

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

Margaret Halsey

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

I always figure I can have the Midwest one way or the other. Because it's my background, it ought to be a voice that comes easily.

Richard Schickel

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Margaret Halsey

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Tavis Smiley

Give that to me so I can get out of here.

Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Vincent Bugliosi

If the Tate premises, ladies and gentlemen, did not symbolize the establishment to Charles Manson, no residence, no premises, ever would.

Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Edith Wharton

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

David Brin

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Chaim Potok

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

Chaim Potok

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Frank Yerby

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

Frank Yerby

From where they stood, they could see the castle.

Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

David Brock

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

David Brock

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benjamin Hoff

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Dashiell Hammett

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Dashiell Hammett

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.