Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

Charles Bronfman

In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.

Zadie Smith

The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

Will Eisner

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival.

Ian Rankin

He is a big fan of pulp fiction/American private-eye stories. He writes very tough, amoral tales of urban life with very few good cops, and usually it is the villains who are the heroes of his books. It is a very interesting take.

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

Arundhati Roy

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Jessica Valenti

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

People may have feelings about an issue in some amorphous way, but then something happens that crystallizes these feelings and that helps people distinguish between position A and position B. Wedge issues sharpen those feelings.

William Faulkner

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Small presses are really an amorphous market. There is a range of companies from the Fortune 500 to information and technology to trade associations down to specialty areas, and they have a loyal following.

Herman Melville

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.

P. J. O'Rourke

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

Damon Galgut

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

Is it illegal to have a friendship with someone who has business with the government? And if that's not illegal, then what kinds of relationships are proper or improper? Those are amorphous questions with amorphous answers.

Cassandra Clare

Amor verus numquam moritur: True love never dies

Fay Vincent

He's in a very tough situation, and that's why I think it's the worst problem for baseball since the Black Sox. Because it's so amorphous and so big and so murky. ... For the first time Selig has the awkward position of having to authorize an investigation where he may be a target. No commissioner has ever been in that position.

Lauren Groff

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Lauren Oliver

Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.

Lynn Coady

This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.