Quotes about Author
That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.
— Cormac McCarthy
A bland Jesus who simply told people to look at the lilies of the field - such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who created him threaten no one.
— Craig Keener
Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul.
— DH Lawrence
Take my words, and fling Them down on the counter roundly; See if they ring.
— DH Lawrence
Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.
— Dale Carnegie
you will not alter their opinions, for you have hurt their feelings.
— Dale Carnegie
Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…
— Walt Whitman
The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
— Walt Whitman
The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself, and makes one.
— Walt Whitman
When I Read the Book When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught of my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
— Walt Whitman
When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
— Walt Whitman
I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes, We convince by our presence.)
— Walt Whitman