Quotes about likeness page 19
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Looking Back: Diane Arbus at the Met" http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/03/21/050321craw_artworld?currentPage=all, The New Yorker, March 21, 2005. Retrieved February 4, 2010. source: Sass, Louis A. "'Hyped on Clarity': Diane Arbus and the Postmodern Condition". Raritan, volume 25, number 1, pp. 1–37, Summer 2005. <br><br> <br class="br">Source: Kimmelman, Michael, The Profound Vision of Diane Arbus: Flaws in Beauty, Beauty in Flaws, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/arts/design/the-profound-vision-of-diane-arbus-flaws-in-beauty-beauty-in.html, 1 November 2018, The New York Times, 11 March 2005
“But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.”
Barack Obama book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
American Acheivement interview (1996)
Source: The Joy Luck Club
Context: Reading for me was a refuge. I could escape from everything that was miserable in my life and I could be anyone I wanted to be in a story, through a character. It was almost sinful how much I liked it. That's how I felt about it. If my parents knew how much I loved it, I thought they would take it away from me. I think I was also blessed with a very wild imagination because I can remember, when I was at an age before I could read, that I could imagine things that weren't real and whatever my imagination saw is what I actually saw. Some people would say that was psychosis but I prefer to say it was the beginning of a writer's imagination. If I believed that insects had eyes and mouths and noses and could talk, that's what they did. If I thought I could see devils dancing out of the ground, that's what I saw. If I thought lightning had eyes and would follow me and strike me down, that's what would happen. And I think I needed an outlet for all that imagination, so I found it in books.
“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”
Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Speech at the Somerville Club, February 27, 1895
“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964) Spanish writer
Thomas Paine book The American Crisis
The Crisis No. I (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776).
Source: 1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Context: THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Masques
“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Rainer Maria Rilke book The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Source: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
“up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky…”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
Source: Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
Etgar Keret (1967) Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter
Source: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Burden of Dreams (1982)
Context: Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it, I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment.
“He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.”
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Source: We Were Liars
“or that writing a poem you can read to no one
is like dancing in the dark.”
Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet
Source: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Clary to Jace, pg. 97
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The Harlot's House http://www.poetry-archive.com/w/the_harlots_house.html, st. 12 (1885)
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Lady Bracknell, Act I.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Context: I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
“Absurdity is what I like most in life.”
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“I like seeing people when they can't see me.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Interview with Ken Campbell on Reality on the Rocks: Beyond Our Ken (1995) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3aadgf0GH8
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 12
Premchand (1880–1936) Hindi writer
He wrote many of his novels in Hindi on his avowed words, in page=90.
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique
“He beat him like a rented mule.”
Mike Lange (1948) Canadian sportscaster
Quoted in Bob Smizik, Tales from the Pittsburgh Penguins (2006). Lange credited a stockbroker with saying the phrase to him when Lange asked him how his day was. <br class="br">Noted as a phrase closely associated with Lange, as quoted in Shelly Anderson, "Lange signs 1-year Penguins radio deal", http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07208/804828-61.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2007-07-27)