Shoeblack Occupation Quotes

#1. She closes her eyes but can't fall to sleep, and so instead she conjures up again the substance of the dream ... Awake it doesn't take, though; it feels like someone else's life and she like a voyeur, watching from the outside.

Paul Murray

#2. Friedrich Nietzsche says, He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

Carrie Jones

#3. The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used.

James Purdy

#4. It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.

Emil Cioran

#5. She had asked if he was good-looking. 'No, I don't think he is,' answered Margaret, 'but he's very paintable.' 'That is an answer which has the advantage of sounding well and meaning nothing,' smiled Susie. She

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

T Bone Burnett

#7. There are no hard times for good ideas.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#8. Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?"
"I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

Cassandra Clare

#9. The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.
For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.

Wendy Beck

#10. Love. Really, it's responsible for the most vulgar excesses.

Beatriz Williams

#11. ...the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. There's one thing anyway I want you to tell her, and tell her right away, and that is that I'm in love with her." "Is that true?

Pauline Reage

#13. If you put a man in the mindset of romance, his mind will start to create those synapses and he'll start taking charge.

Roberto Hogue