Top 22 Delbanco Quotes
#1. Why are you sad?" Baby asked.
"Because some day you'll fly higher than high, and the blue will fill your eyes, and maybe you'll forget to come down," said Wishmoley.
Baby snuggled next to him. "I'll never forget," she said.
Julia Hubery Mary McQuillam
#2. On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
Philippe Petit
#3. One of the first things a typical lesbian learns is that there is no such thing as a typical lesbian.
Yvonne Zipter
#4. Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
James J. Kilpatrick
#6. NO!" Raffe grips me as if he can bind my soul to my body. An upside-down view of the doorway shows up in my field of vision. Smoke waft through it.
Although the pain obscures Raffe's warmth, I feel the presure of his hug, the rocking of our bodies back and forth as he repeats the word, "No.
Susan Ee
#7. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#9. The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.
Nicholas Delbanco
#10. I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
Cate Shortland
#11. I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.
Felicity Jones
#12. Can't you see? It's incredibly interesting. Aren't you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man's brain? It's as if the rational world, your world, was a still pond and Petter's brain was a jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere." The
Jon Ronson
#13. Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'
Amy Lee
#14. Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
Nicholas Delbanco
#15. Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
Nicholas Delbanco
#16. By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.
Nicholas Delbanco
#17. What a curious attitude scientists have: "We still don't know that; but it is knowable and it is only a matter of time before we get to know it!"' As if that went without saying.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#18. As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
Andrew Delbanco
#19. Passive Mind generates mood swings and active mind generates Ideas
Rajesh Walecha
#20. So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
Andrew Delbanco
#21. The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.
Andrew Delbanco
#22. The entrepreneur must structure the challenges and milestones for each stepping-stone in order to provide the proof required by the likely investor in the subsequent stage. In
Dermot Berkery
