Ihab Hassan Quotes

#1. Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Ihab Hassan

#2. She'd marry George who was richer anyway ... lies, all lies! "I want you to do your homework from now on," Powell told the child. "And

Diana Palmer

#3. Swiftness is the enemy of comprehension.

Felix Alba-Juez

#4. The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

Ihab Hassan

#5. Universal violence compels the language to be mute ... Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Ihab Hassan

#6. Don't chase people. If they want to leave, let them leave. Don't open the door for them. Don't even look at them. Indifference is always the best.

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#7. There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things ... To feel that we can care for ourselves without seeing our feelings as objects, and liking them as objects, is to be wrong about our care for ourselves.

Eli Siegel

#8. The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

Neil Diamond

#10. The decay of the family in quite recent times is undoubtedly to be attributed in the main to the industrial revolution, but it had already begun before that event, and its beginnings were inspired by individualistic theory. Young

Bertrand Russell

#11. If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

Nora Roberts

#12. God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.

Marques Houston

#13. Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain.

Ihab Hassan

#14. There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale