Abram L. Sachar Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
-
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
-
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
-
If you love what you do, it's not work.
-
I don't think of myself as a singer. The only reason I ever got onstage was to meet girls.
-
Today was tomorrow yesterday so don't inhale.
-
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
-
I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
-
I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.
-
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
-
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
-
I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.
-
All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!
-
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
-
I've been through hell and back. I have, to be honest, and still I'm able to do what I do and nothing can stop me. No one can stop me, no matter what. I stop when I'm ready to stop. You know, and I'm just saying, you know, I will continue to move forward no matter what.
-
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
-
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)
-
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
-
In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
-
Don’t forget to breathe... LOL. It was a hot one and we had some pretty crazy technical difficulties. Trying hard to keep it locked and relaxed at Loveloud Fest last weekend..
-
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
