Forsyte Saga Quotes

#1. The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#2. The striver in him knew that his first aim must be to rise in the system he dreamed of liberating.

John Le Carre

#3. Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

James Farley

#4. When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.

Karl Rove

#5. I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

Jack Kirby

#6. Haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

#7. I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.

Richard Greenberg

#8. I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;

Annie Dillard

#9. I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

Ken Danby

#10. Many great opportunities are not cheap; but some cheap opportunities are so great.

Iveta Cherneva

#11. I have overspread the world like a syrup and the emptiness of it it's terrifying, but there is no dislodging the seed; the seed has become a little knot of cold fire which roars like a sun in the vast hollow of the dead carcass.

Henry Miller

#12. Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific is a copy of The Forsyte Saga I heaved overboard one afternoon. I very quickly saw what was wrong with it; Galsworthy was a gentleman, and no gentleman would ever write a good book.

MacDonald Harris