Quotes
Authors
George Barrell Cheever
"A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!" --
George Barrell Cheever
#Atheist Quotes
#Liars Quotes
#Writing Quotes
“I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.”
“A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream.”
“We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.”
“Inwardly, I gouged my eyes out.”
“I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through...”
“I think as a scout you have to pick. It is harder. You have to talk and explain that this is not just about standing one-dimensionally in front of a camera.”
“Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.”
“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
