Louis Auchincloss Quotes

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss

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• All religions have been made by men.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Made
  • Religions

• My worst expectations never happened.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Never
  • Worst
  • Expectations

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Work
  • Different
  • Game

• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Work
  • Important
  • New

• There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Huge
  • Seldom
  • Continent

• I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • May
  • Party
  • Successful

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
  • Done
  • Mother

• I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Time
  • Country
  • Political

• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Help
  • Popular

• A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Skills

• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Team
  • Like
  • Feel

• It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Education
  • Fire

• Is it named after Michael Jordan?

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen

• The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future

• Now you're gone, and nobody says a word about your troubled and exalted life. Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn at your dumb funeral feast.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Life
  • Dumb
  • Funeral

• I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Work
  • Kids

• To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!

  

  Aleksis Kivi
  • Hope
  • Embrace
  • Grave

• When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Black
  • Petty
  • Seize

• A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Nasty
  • Thinks

• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

  

  George Washington
  • Confidence
  • Friendship
  • Withstand

• A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

  

  Louis Auchincloss