Jaan Nisar Quotes

#1. Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

Madison Smartt Bell

#2. And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.

Thomas Hardy

#3. The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

Frederick Lenz

#4. The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Charles Olson

#5. Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Robert Black

#6. Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

Yoshida Kenko