Discreetness Quotes

#1. The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.

Milan Kundera

#2. Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

Camille Paglia

#3. I don't know how breeder marriages ever work, since the wife never seems to understand.

Andrea Speed

#4. Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.

Marguerite Poland

#5. The unexpected is always likely to happen.

John Motson

#6. What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

Lee Child

#7. Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.

Rebecca McKinsey

#9. I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

Charles Darwin

#10. It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#11. This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

Dario Argento

#12. Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

Zhuangzi

#13. Loneliness is multiplied by rejection.

Don Curtis