Charles Lemert Quotes
“Writing succeeds at whatever it does in spite of the sparseness of its means relative to the worlds evoked.”Charles Lemert
Quotes to Explore
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco -
The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
Manti Te'o
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
L'Wren Scott -
I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
Laura Wasser -
I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
Natasha Bedingfield -
I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Tacitus -
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A. S. Byatt
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
B. B. King -
Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
Albert Einstein -
When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
Jan Mark -
I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.
Chris Wooding -
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
Jeff Bridges
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Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
Dorothy Height -
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'
Jose Ferreira -
About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.
Christine Lavin -
I got to do school properly and all the stuff that you should do when you're young and teenage: first friends, first girlfriends. It wasn't like I needed to be doing acting.
George MacKay -
“Writing succeeds at whatever it does in spite of the sparseness of its means relative to the worlds evoked.”
Charles Lemert