Tristram Shandy Quotes

#1. Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.

Roger Ebert

#2. Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.

David Hume

#4. Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Satyajit Ray

#7. The good man's life is full of light. The sinner's road is dark and gloomy.

Anonymous

#8. My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

Thomas Hughes

#10. Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

Harry Truman

#11. When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The moment you believe your experience is caused by other people, you are giving them your power.

Jeanne McElvaney

#13. If you think about it, today's hit is tomorrow's niche. Almost

Chris Anderson

#14. Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good.

Jackie Cooper

#15. I suppose I do have rivals in the company, but none of them is as challenging as the ever-present, alternate version of me: always one giant unreachable step ahead.

Meg Howrey

#16. Well, this awkward.' -McKenna

J.C. Buchanan

#17. Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story ...

Laurence Sterne

#18. I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

Joe Barton

#19. Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.

Elena Kagan