John Gould Quotes

#1. Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

John Gould Fletcher

#2. Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

John Gould

#3. In the afternoon, over gold screens,
I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.

John Gould Fletcher

#4. If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

John Gould

#5. Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.

John Gould

#6. I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

John Gould

#7. No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

Nikita Khrushchev

#8. What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

John Gould

#9. Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

John Abercrombie

#10. Sehwag is a miracle, Sehwag is an institution

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#11. God willing, we shall this day meet that old enemy
Who has give us so many a good beating.
Thank God we have a cause worth fighting for,
And a cause worth losing and a good song to sing.

John Gould Fletcher

#12. The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

John Gould

#13. Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.

John Gould

#14. Here upon earth there is life, and then death,
Dawn, and later nightfall,
Fire, and the quenching of embers:
But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,
If the idea fits my fancy?

John Gould Fletcher

#15. I should have known what I was getting into with you."
"Oh please," I tell him. "I am a motherfucking delight.

Karina Halle

#16. My happiness is like this sand:
I let it run out of my hand.

John Gould Fletcher

#17. Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?

John Gould Fletcher

#18. I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

Barbara Ess

#19. A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

John Gould

#20. To show them that I'm more than just a piece in their Games?" I say.

Suzanne Collins

#21. As I went through the city by day
I saw shadows in sunlight;
But in the night I saw everywhere
Stars within the darkness.

John Gould Fletcher

#22. At last the bottom fell out.
No more water in the pail.
No more moon in the water.

John Gould

#23. I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

John Gould

#24. He'd tried so hard to fight his fear, but there was a something liberating about giving up the battle and recognizing his fear was part of him. It wasn't something to be exorcised. It wasn't something to be obeyed. It needed only to be acknowledged.

Marie Sexton

#25. Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

John Gould Fletcher

#26. Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#27. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Ned Vizzini

#28. At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

John Gould

#29. And as the room starts to fill with the first somber-faced neighbors coming to pay their respects, it becomes clear to me that the reason for filling the shiva house with visitors is most likely to prevent the mourners from tearing each other limb from limb.

Jonathan Tropper

#30. If The Beatles represent the most successful version you can be of a thing, then by that definition The Rolling Stones are The Beatles of music, not counting The Beatles. John Lennon is The Beatles of The Beatles.

Dana Gould

#31. Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?

Bobby Gould

#32. I shall give you a little prophecy, Locke Lamora, as best as I have seen it.
'Three things you must take up and three things you must lose before you die: a key, a crown, a child.' Patience pushed her hood up over her head. 'You will die when a silver rain falls.

Scott Lynch

#33. There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#34. Fear is the greatest salesman.

Robert Klein

#35. It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind

Sarah Kane