Quotes about Author
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Some women have a weakness for shoes. i can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
— Oprah Winfrey
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
— Oscar Wilde
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
— Oscar Wilde
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
— Oscar Wilde
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
— Oscar Wilde
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
— Cormac McCarthy
Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
— Cormac McCarthy
Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it.
— Cormac McCarthy
Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.
— Cormac McCarthy
Why did Jesus weep? said Suttree. Eh? He pointed up at the sign. Why did Jesus weep? Dont know scriptures? Some. He wept over folks workin on Sundays. Suttree smiled.
— Cormac McCarthy
The laws of mathematics supposedly derive from the rules of logic. But there is no argument for the rules of logic that does not presuppose them.
— Cormac McCarthy