Literature Quotes - Page 43

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.