Skvorecky Quotes

#1. When the heart is heavy cheerful words can carry it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.

Melvin Burgess

#3. So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Dick Van Dyke

#4. I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

Joe Louis

#5. And Shalhassan of Cathal realized in that moment, standing between the fair brother and the dark, that he was not going to lead this war after all.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#6. Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

Bill Callahan

#7. A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't.

Josef Skvorecky

#8. I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Edvard Munch

#9. Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Josef Skvorecky

#10. I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

Steve Buscemi

#11. It is hard to sleep when roaches keep skittering across your body. My understanding is that since roaches can't shift into reverse, if one of them crawls into your ear canal it can get really nasty and potentially kill you. Sleep on that.

Larry Correia

#12. And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.

Stefan Heym

#13. I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

Kate Christensen

#14. When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Josef Skvorecky

#15. Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

Khushwant Singh

#16. We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Josef Skvorecky

#17. Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Josef Skvorecky

#18. I know my place in the universe; now lie still so I can stand on your throat.

Morgan Blayde

#19. Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Mark Spitz

#20. There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

Josef Skvorecky

#21. The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

#22. I was always, luckily, only a reader.

Josef Skvorecky