Corsican Brothers Quotes

#1. We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary.

Jose Saramago

#2. Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. He likes to think he's Paul McCartney. But Paul McCartney is a gentle soul. And a monogamist.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?

Zhuangzi

#5. Thus one can see in the Negro church to-day, reproduced in microcosm, all the great world from which the Negro is cut off by color-prejudice and social condition.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

Jimmy Durante

#7. So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Don Winslow

#8. If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at all.

Jessica De La Davies

#9. Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message

Kenneth E. Boulding

#10. I listen to the rainfall,
my words wanna flow!
Droplets run down the wall,
where do they go?
Letters in the raw,
mesh together for the show!

Leslie Austin

#11. She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.

Hilary Mantel

#12. The secret to making money isn't working at a high-paying job, it's finding creative solutions to people's problems.

Ziad K. Abdelnour