Henry St. John Quotes
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
Quotes to Explore
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
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The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
