Rene Daumal Quotes

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Rene Daumal

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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.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Special

• Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Approach

• I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.

  

  Lorde
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Mind
  • Cat
  • Sight

• My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Writing
  • School
  • Father

• The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Learning
  • Prayer
  • Pride

• I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Noise
  • Wondered

• I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Risk
  • Concerned
  • Incident

• And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Wealth
  • Rose
  • Feet

• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Moment
  • Handled
  • Patienly

• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fame
  • Poet
  • England

• What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christmas
  • Christ
  • Necessary

• Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wind
  • Blow
  • Rings

• Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Mean

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Error
  • False
  • Knife