Arthur Miller Quotes
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Quotes to Explore
-
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
-
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
-
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
-
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
-
The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
-
You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
-
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
-
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
-
I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
-
I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
-
You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
-
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
-
I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
-
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
-
Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
-
My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
-
My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
-
In married life three is company and two none.
-
Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.
-
I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.
-
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
-
Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
-
Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.
-
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
