Walter Scott Waverley Quotes

#1. Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

Fred D'Aguiar

#2. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.

Jane Austen

#3. As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.

Leon Krier

#4. I vow that i will never forget this once in a life time love and to know it to be the deepest part of our soul and no matter how far the wave carry us apart we will always find our way to eachother.

Peter Adejimi

#5. It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

Pablo Casals

#6. Thou are boot for many a bruise,
And healest many a wound;
In our Lady's blessed name,
I take thee from the ground.

Walter Scott

#7. The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was supposed to suffer (which is quite the same thing), by the air of London.

Walter Scott

#8. I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it'll mean I've survived. It'll mean I'm alive.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.

Atul Gawande

#10. I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."

Sandra Cisneros