Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Georgia O'Keeffe

In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Horace Walpole

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

Michael Reagan

I don't think we expected, any of us, the literally hundreds of thousands of people that would show up,

Richard Flanagan

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

Hunter S. Thompson

It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

Hudson Taylor

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

Honore de Balzac

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Honore de Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Harold Ramis

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

James Branch Cabell

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

James Boswell

One must be strict even in little things.

Jaime Murray

Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister.

Jacques Barzun

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Jack White

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

Izabella Scorupco

I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know.

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

Isaac Disraeli

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

Paul Harvey

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

Paul Auster

Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.

Joseph Brodsky

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

Little Milton

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

Little Richard

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

Leonard Susskind

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

Paul Prudhomme

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.

Patrick Ness

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

Patrick Rothfuss

If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.