1517 Podcasts Quotes

#1. There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay ... the essay must be pure
pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

Virginia Woolf

#2. I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature - the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds - which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.

Ruth Ozeki

#3. History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

Bernard DeVoto

#4. Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.

Jim Kjelgaard

#5. It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#6. Mase was trying to make the cops take him to jail, or possibly kill him, rather than let his brother end his life. More

Leo Sullivan

#7. She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.

Albert Finney

#8. The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.

L. Ron Hubbard

#9. Satan has bigger fish to fry,
mostly in Washington, D.C.
Now how about dinner?

Ellen Hopkins

#10. Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

J. Maarten Troost

#11. I don't really have a retirement plan.

Bob Dylan

#12. The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Lou Brock

#13. ...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.

William Golding