Prust Writer Quotes

#1. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

Barack Obama

#2. Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ...

Joseph Conrad

#3. My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

Camille Paglia

#4. Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Larry McMurtry

#5. Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences last while material purchases fade.

Tom Rath

#6. Youth lasts much longer than young people think.

Marie Josephine De Suin

#7. If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.

Kenneth Schwarz

#8. Forgive what you can't excuse ...

Mary Wortley Montagu

#9. Nothing of value comes without being earned.

Michael Jordan

#10. The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Junius

#11. I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

Adam Smith

#12. It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne

#13. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

Charles Ruff

#14. Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

Michael Bloomberg

#15. Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

Francis Picabia