Huddie Leadbelly Quotes

#1. A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain don't have a gift for telling a story.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.

Peter Saul

#3. Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#4. Some writers write about love; some writers write with love.

Debasish Mridha

#5. No man got an erection from looking at "brown string sandals.

Mary Roach

#6. One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

John Maynard Keynes

#7. The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Camille Paglia

#8. There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.

Michael Hudson

#9. They're mocking us," I said. "Nonsense. We just fucked so hard we broke your bed. They wish they were us. The natural order of sexual status has been restored.

Kylie Scott

#10. I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

Willie Aames

#11. It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. We've had a deal of bad poetry, haven't we? Suggesting the climax to this thrilling and literary spectacle. The Olla Podrida, my sweet-hearts, will now be set on the fire.

Dorothy Dunnett

#13. When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

Jessica Stroup

#14. The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

Francois Truffaut

#15. Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Kahlil Gibran