Huneker Quotes

#1. Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

James Huneker

#2. Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.

Marina Leigh Duff

#3. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Gibbons Huneker

#4. Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.

Raul Castro

#5. You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

Charles Haley

#6. God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

Mother Teresa

#7. Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

James Huneker

#8. I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

Dorothy Parker

#9. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

#10. We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

James Huneker

#11. A critic is a man who expects miracles.

James Gibbons Huneker

#12. Let go of my arm and wrapped himself around me. Touching. Always touching. As though he couldn't stand the air having more contact with my skin than he did.

A Meredith Walters

#13. All men of action are dreamers.

James Huneker

#14. Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

James Huneker

#15. *Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Arthur Frommer

#17. I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.

Rupert Everett

#18. The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

James Huneker

#19. Married men make the best husbands.

James Huneker

#20. Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

James Huneker

#21. It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

Daniel Dennett

#22. Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

Scott Ian

#23. You don't have to be in Nam to be in Nam.

Tim O'Brien

#24. Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

James Huneker

#25. A mother is the most important blessing of your life.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Frank Butler

#27. Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

James Huneker

#28. There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

James Huneker

#29. Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

James Huneker