John Erskine Quotes

#1. It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.

John Erskine

#2. Without prayer, life is a panic.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

John Erskine

#4. Wine?" I asked, ready to order.
"I'd rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin.

J.C. Reed

#5. An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

Ernst Haeckel

#6. And then I carefully sealed away my heart...

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

George Herbert

#8. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

#9. Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#10. In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

John Erskine

#11. They tried shooting at the squirrels, and they wasted many arrows before they managed to bring one down on the path. But when they roasted it, it proved horrible to taste, and they shot no more squirrels.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. This omission of Asian Americans from history can lead to Asian American students in college internalizing the belief that they have not contributed to and are not full members of society or higher education.

Samuel D. Museus

#13. I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#14. There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

John Erskine

#15. Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

Don King

#16. A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,

Carolyn Kizer

#17. I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.

John Erskine

#18. Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

Peter Carey

#19. Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine