Top 100 Quotes About Faber
#1. Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'
Robert Giroux
#2. I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.
John Corey Whaley
#4. I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.
Jarvis Cocker
#5. We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we aren't allowed and that someone can back it up. -Jacky Faber
L.A. Meyer
#6. It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.
Henri Bergson
#8. Wednesday night. Faber shared the news on Twitter, announcing that the deal would be made on Thursday morning. The
Anonymous
#10. I go to the rail and shout after her as she descends the stairs, "But that Mrs. Shinn called me a whore! In front of everybody!"
She pauses on the middle steps and looks up at me. "Perhaps, Miss Faber, it is because you continually act like one!
L.A. Meyer
#11. In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
Clive Sinclair
#12. Homo sapiens," "homo faber" ... yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans.
Alexander Schmemann
#13. Why, then?" I demand. "It is because, Miss Faber," says Mr. Peel, smiling one of his very rare smiles. "It is because you can swim." What?
L.A. Meyer
#14. The numbness will go away, he thought. It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me. Someone somewhere will give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were. Even the smile, he thought, the old burnt-in smile, that's gone. I'm lost without it
Ray Bradbury
#15. At least you were a fool about the right things," said Faber.
Ray Bradbury
#16. I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.
Steve Breen
#17. The ideals of homo faber, the fabricator of the world, which are permanence, stability, and durability, have been sacrificed to abundance, the ideal of the animal laborans.
Hannah Arendt
#18. What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before?
-Jacky Faber
L.A. Meyer
#19. Don't listen," whispered Faber. "He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out.
Ray Bradbury
#20. When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.
David Mitchell
#21. Faber sniffed the book. Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.
Ray Bradbury
#22. I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.
Ray Bradbury
#23. When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.
Marc Faber
#24. It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.
Red Faber
#25. The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
Michel Faber
#26. For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
Frederick William Faber
#27. When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.
Michel Faber
#28. He ought to have conceded that she was a flower not destined to open, a hothouse creation, no less beautiful, no less woth having, He should have admired her, praised her and, at the close of day, let her be.
Michel Faber
#29. Could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.
Michel Faber
#30. It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.
Michel Faber
#31. Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas
Michel Faber
#32. All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.
Michel Faber
#34. Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.
Michel Faber
#35. Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already
Michel Faber
#36. Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.
Michel Faber
#37. If the Chinese bubble bursts one day, which inevitably will happen - maybe not tomorrow, maybe in three months, maybe in three years - when it happens, it will have devastating consequences for the global economy.
Marc Faber
#39. I think 2015 will see a year where Europe outperforms the U.S. massively.
Marc Faber
#40. Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.
Michel Faber
#41. [ ... ] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves?
Michel Faber
#42. I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.
Michel Faber
#43. I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.
Urijah Faber
#44. Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace
Michel Faber
#45. Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.
Michel Faber
#46. I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.
Michel Faber
#47. 'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on.
Michel Faber
#48. Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy.
Michel Faber
#49. Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
Michel Faber
#50. ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her.
Michel Faber
#51. If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.
Michel Faber
#52. Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
Frederick William Faber
#53. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
Michel Faber
#54. No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
Adele Faber
#55. Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory.
Michel Faber
#56. I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.
Michel Faber
#57. Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.
Michel Faber
#58. The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended consequences.
Marc Faber
#59. There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.
Michel Faber
#60. Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
Frederick William Faber
#61. The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.
Marc Faber
#63. She sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board.
Michel Faber
#64. I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.
Michel Faber
#65. Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.
Michel Faber
#66. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation.")
Mebane T. Faber
#67. She talks about being a Christian as if it's a gym membership you can sign up for.
Michel Faber
#68. The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.
Urijah Faber
#69. The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the
Michel Faber
#70. By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years since: that all the truly essential stories are already in the bag.
Michel Faber
#71. Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?
Michel Faber
#72. Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
Adele Faber
#73. I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.
Michel Faber
#74. Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
Michel Faber
#76. Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?
Michel Faber
#77. MERCY. It was a word she'd rarely encountered
Michel Faber
#78. It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.
Marc Faber
#79. When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or TV series could ever change or damage my work.
Michel Faber
#80. But surely we are not allowed ... "
"Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.
L.A. Meyer
#81. When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
Adele Faber
#82. I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens.
Urijah Faber
#83. The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Michel Faber
#84. What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?
Michel Faber
#85. When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars ... I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive.
Marc Faber
#86. Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well.
Marc Faber
#87. I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.
Michel Faber
#88. People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.
Michel Faber
#89. The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.
Adele Faber
#90. If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.
Marc Faber
#91. Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?
Michel Faber
#92. Aside from being a fighter, I am a relaxed person. It is a lifestyle thing for me. I don't stress too much.
Urijah Faber
#93. You one of those decaffeinated Christians, padre? The diabetic wafer? Doctrine-free, guilt-reduced, low in Last judgement, 100% less Second Coming, no added Armageddon? Might contain small traces of crucified Jew?
Michel Faber
#94. Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another
Michel Faber
#96. I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.
Marc Faber
#97. I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.
Sylvia Plath
#98. When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
Adele Faber
#99. I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
Michel Faber
#100. Well, here we are.
Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.
Michel Faber
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