Joseph Lewis Quotes
Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
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I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
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Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
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For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.
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Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
