Quotes by Authors - Page 150

The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple.
Victor Hugo
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
George Eliot
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Anonymous
What is human is immortal!
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.
Lord Chesterfield
Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.
Walter Colton
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
John Galsworthy
Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
Marcel Proust
Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.
Hannah More
Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.
Mary Webb
It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.
Carson McCullers
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Ned Rorem
I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night good Lord deliver us!
Anonymous
Aspects are within us and who seems most kingly is king.
Thomas Hardy
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
Christoph Martin-Wieland
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
Rita Mae Brown
Whatever people in general do not understand they are always prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
L. E. Landon
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen
When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going when he got there he didn't know where he was and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.
Anonymous
Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!
Louisa May Alcott
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
Bobby Murcer
In baseball you don't know nothing.
Yogi Berra
I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.
Geraldine Page
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship we will never feel the free wind blow.
Sonia Johnson
We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.
Betty Friedan
When we are not sure we are alive.
Graham Greene
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible they begin to see it as possible.
Cherie Carter-Scott
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done then they begin to hope it can be done then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
Sheila Ballantyne
Once you start asking questions innocence is gone.
Mary Astor
An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.
Henry S. Haskins
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
Anatole France
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash
The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
Gene Brown
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Dorothea Brande
Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
Russell W. Davenport
Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
My doctrine is this that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop and do nothing we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Anna Sewell
You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.
Jane Fonda
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
Amelia Barr
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
John Lyly
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.
Anonymous
Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
Ambrose Bierce
If ignorance is indeed bliss it is a very low grade of the article.
Tehyi Hsieh
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
John Lyly
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
James Thurber
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
Lord Chesterfield
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously.
Thomas Haliburton
He is idle that might be better employed.
Thomas Fuller
Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome