"Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American."

-- Irwin Shaw

#Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes #Singers Quotes

“The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”

Source : "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 247), 1992.
“I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.135, Cambridge University Press
“A lot of people put out albums with sort of crappy songs and a couple of singles because they know no one's going to listen to it anyway. We very much wanted it to be something that you do listen to from beginning to end and had a narrative that was important.”

Source : Source: www.thefader.com
“I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.”
“Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.”
“How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.”
“Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other is that order that springs from love: there's no other way of establishing order except through love.”
“The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.”

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