E. M. Forster Quotes
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
Quotes to Explore
-
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
-
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
-
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
-
I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
-
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
-
I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
-
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
-
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
-
It's nice not to be too boring.
-
You either make dust or eat dust.
-
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
-
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
-
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
-
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
-
So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
-
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
-
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
-
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
-
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
-
I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
-
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
