#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #World Quotes
“I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution”
“Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.”
“I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'”
“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.”
“There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
“After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.”
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
“There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.”
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
