Nissenbaum Quotes

#1. There could be no romance in the terrible possibility that Gretel Nissenbaum had fled on foot, alone, not to her family but simply to escape from her life; in what exigency of need, what despondency of spirit, no name might be given it by any who have not experienced it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

William Cowper

#3. Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Richard Serra

#4. I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

Roger Nash Baldwin

#5. I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.

Steve Berry

#6. The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.

Tom Chatfield

#7. Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three - and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

David Markson

#8. This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Jean De La Bruyere

#9. Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Kate Clinton

#10. There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

James Jannard

#11. It was actually illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts between 1659

Stephen Nissenbaum