Gerald Brenan Quotes
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Quotes to Explore
-
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
-
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
-
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
-
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
-
Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.
-
The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.
-
The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
-
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
-
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
-
Our jovial star reigned at his birth.
-
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
-
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
-
...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.
-
There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.
-
Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-
When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
-
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
