Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. Mencken
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
Kara Swisher
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It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
Abe Gubegna
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The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.
Donna Leon
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
Arthur Golden
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.
Eudora Welty
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I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.
Carl Lewis
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
