Ivan Stang famous quotes

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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

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