George Herbert Palmer Quotes

#1. Perhaps I couldn't tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.

Laura Whitcomb

#2. Identification with the past is an intuitive, imaginative process which seeks as its fulfillment a perception not merely of the relevancy of the past, but of its actuality.

Robert W. Hanning

#3. Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philosopher, but just a human being, and my charities are the pleasantest expense I have on these journeys.

Baron D'Holbach

#4. What of the melancholy, may I ask?"
"Stubbornly persistent, I'm sorry to say."
"If only modest joy were so dogged, eh?"
"You said something there, sir.

Patrick DeWitt

#5. My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Jonny Wilkinson

#6. In life, we have common experiences; in art, uncommon ones.

Marty Rubin

#7. The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

George Herbert Palmer

#8. The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Cornel West

#9. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert Palmer

#10. You will be hearing from me," she said, as he opened the door for her. "And you will find that when I am crossed I am very formidable.

Colm Toibin

#11. I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

George Herbert Palmer

#12. Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

George Herbert Palmer

#13. If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

Madeleine L'Engle