top of page
.png){kind=small}
All Quotes Collection
"You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one."
53
"I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went."
41
"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."
65
"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
38
"There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round."
47
"We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread."
36
"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
55
"You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either."
38
"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."
55
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
50
"But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement."
27
"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
26
"Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done."
23
"In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."
29
"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts."
37
"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely."
26
"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague."
31
"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough."
40
"For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world."
38
"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."
Man,
41
"Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas."
40
"What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."
52
"Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind."
45
"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
44
"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."
46
"The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur."
52
bottom of page