#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Play Quotes
“The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It's tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of hands, feet or tongue and lead to the source from whence they come, the Minstrel divine.”
“Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots of love. How lucky we are that her imagination runs deep, runs true, runs onto the page in crazily beautiful stories -- and lucky, so very lucky, to be holding those stories right now in our hands.”
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”
“You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.”
“Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.”
“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”
“Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.”
Baltasar Gracian Writer
Christian Furchtegott Gellert Poet
Christoph Martin Wieland Poet
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Author
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist
Johann Kaspar Lavater Poet
Seneca the Younger Philosopher
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Poet
William Hogarth Painter