Look Homeward Angel Quotes

#1. David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision

James Hollis

#2. I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

Pat Conroy

#3. My mother had brought me here when I was fifteen, on a Sunday after I'd read Look Homeward, Angel for the first time. She'd loved the novel, memorizing whole paragraphs, and, of course, naming me after the book's main character. It is a novel you have to read as a young person or you don't get it.

Ron Rash

#4. Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

John Milton

#5. I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

Maya Angelou

#6. Usually, destructive pleasure-seeking behavior arises as an outburst of pent-up desire, and not as the expression of authentic desire.

Charles Eisenstein

#7. For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

Nikolai Gogol

#8. So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there'd be you.

Amy Lee

#9. Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Andrew Motion

#10. For the Christian, peace is not simply the absence of conflict, or any other artificial state the world has to offer. Rather it is the deep, abiding peace only Jesus Christ brings to the heart.

Billy Graham

#11. There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Ellen Stofan

#12. What would you do if you were sent to hell?"
"Stop, drop, and roll?

Darynda Jones

#13. The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart ... To go alone ... into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth
it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

Thomas Wolfe

#14. I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

Ketch Secor

#15. I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.

Haley Pullos

#16. I can't be as flip as I once was.

Jimmy Kimmel

#17. Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found.

Paul Tremblay

#18. How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Stephen Covey

#19. A president is always cosseted by his staff.

Monica Crowley

#20. Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Tom Robbins