Mark Helprin Quotes

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Olympics
  • Qualify
  • World Championships

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Change

• You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Life
  • Game
  • Week

• Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Thought

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dream

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  

  Quintilian
  • Impression
  • Fault
  • Excellent

• Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Work
  • Morning
  • Workout

• It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

  

  Barry White
  • Day
  • Opinion
  • Turned

• I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Me
  • Lying

• A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Proud

• Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Jesus

• (imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!

  

  Eminem
  • Mother

• I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Growth

• Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Humanity
  • Brother
  • Recognition

• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Babies
  • Gothic

• Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Ignorance

• Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

  

  Mark Helprin