Estetiska Bilder Quotes

#1. I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

Marilyn Hacker

#2. Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

Christina Ricci

#3. I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Franz Schubert

#4. The hardest thing to do often comes with no earthly reward; but it supernaturally affects eternity, so it turns into huge deposit in heaven.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#5. The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Herbert Read

#6. I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.

Yelawolf

#7. Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. The word personality didn't exist in English until the eighteenth century, and the idea of "having a good personality" was not widespread until the twentieth.

Susan Cain

#9. A discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

Harold Hotelling

#10. God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#11. You are my father, Incarceron.
I was born from your pain.
Bone of steel; circuits for veins.
My heart a vault of iron.

Catherine Fisher

#12. Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

Steven Rattner

#13. Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

Carmen Agra Deedy