Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About as

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Despair Just Like Perfect
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Anything Everything Gets Got
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Assumed Be Different Because Different
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Am Doing Fast I Am
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

Artist Guy Just Myself
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

College Finish Fit Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Any Course Had Jobs
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
Funny I Think Kid Me
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

After Day Easy Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Easier Find Go I Can
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Lie Life Moderation Pleasures
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Character Sure Voice
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Everything Great Hip Hip Hop
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Advantage Class Community Plunder
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Existed Exists Most Point
  Favorite Make wallpaper
A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
Mindless Mob Often Said
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

About Almost Author Bad
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Acts Great He Man
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

About Gloomy Go Grief
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

About Affairs Am Concern
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Between Different Each Feelings
  Favorite Make wallpaper
As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
Answer Golf Know Puzzle
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Correct Critical Easier Much
  Favorite Make wallpaper
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Fashion Never New Old
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Busier Busy He Man
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Both He May Well
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Body Clean Fast Fat
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Anticipate Expect Generally Happens
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

Absolutely Believe Come Community
  Favorite Make wallpaper

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Defect Redeeming Single William
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Medicine Consist Amusing Nature
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

Greatly Immorality Internet Think
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Degraded Democracy Politicians Statesmen
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Natural Right Pens Peril
  Favorite Make wallpaper
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Person Virtue Age Loss
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love Nature Canvas Embroidered
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Country Serve Well Ancestor
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Book Bored Readers Done
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Opinion Trouble Earth Plague
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Best Government Benevolent Tyranny
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
World Embarrasses Dream Watch
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Public Ferocious Beast Chain
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

General Government Consist Money
  Favorite Make wallpaper