Alfred the Great Quotes
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
Quotes to Explore
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
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The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live
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...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
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Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
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One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field.
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I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
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Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
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The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
