Top 38 Seidel Quotes
#1. For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
Blaise Pascal
#2. No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.
Jan Hellriegel
#3. Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.
Frederick Seidel
#4. May you never grow too old to believe in magic and fairy tales.
Misty Dawn Seidel
#5. Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and Mussolini
Actually met. What an extraordinary thought.
Frederick Seidel
#6. I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.
Kevin Love
#7. The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient ... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature
Henry Seidel Canby
#8. While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
Henry Seidel Canby
#9. Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Coco Chanel
#10. I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.
Frederick Seidel
#12. I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they're achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.
Frederick Seidel
#13. When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
A.A. Milne
#14. July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.
It is beautiful that they have to disappear.
It's like the time you said I love you madly.
That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.
Frederick Seidel
#15. I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.
Nick Harkaway
#17. Having your head in the clouds is not a bad thing ... as long as you take advantage of the inspiration you find while you're there.
Misty Dawn Seidel
#18. At this time of the rolling year," the specter said, "I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me?
Charles Dickens
#19. Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
Vicki Baum
#21. Around the college had grown up in the latter nineteenth century a hap-hazard, ill-blanced collection of professional schools, attended by hard-working meagre creatures with the fun drained out of them...
Yale University
#22. Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.
Henry Seidel Canby
#23. How shall I raise dead men up to plow fields that are fallow? How shall I plant young olive trees?"
Mikel smiled, and it was a beautiful smile. "One tree at a time," He said.
Jo Graham
#24. The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing
Henry Seidel Canby
#25. Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry Seidel Canby
#26. Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.
Henry Seidel Canby
#28. I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.
Jack Kirby
#29. I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.
Frederick Seidel
#30. Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.
Peter Seidel
#31. Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
Alison Gopnik
#32. If we don't dream of the possible,
the possible never happens.
Christopher Reeve
#36. I developed my own production company. I'm reading different books and writing, working on myself. I'm being focused on that, but also being focused on in front of the camera and balancing mommy life at the same time. I just want to continue to move forward.
Kyla Pratt
#37. The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story ... But the new Short Story has gained more individuality. It supports the magazines and has invaded the newspapers
Henry Seidel Canby
#38. She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.
Colum McCann
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