Anthony Trollope Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
-
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
-
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
-
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
-
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
-
Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
-
In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
-
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
-
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
-
I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
-
I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
-
To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
-
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
-
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
-
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
-
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
-
I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
-
Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
-
Only a small part of the interior of the memex is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.
-
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
-
When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
-
Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
-
Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
-
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
