"You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads."

-- Ford Madox Ford

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Sight Quotes

“I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.”
“Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.”
“What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.88
“There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.”
“Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.”
“There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.”

Source : Hans Kung's Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University, March 31, 2005.
“I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.”
“To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.”

You may also like:

E. M. Forster
Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Writer
Ezra Pound
Poet
Gertrude Stein
Writer
Henry James
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
Joseph Conrad
Author
Tom Stoppard
Playwright