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All Quotes Collection
"A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops."
Body,
43
"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to."
60
"You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field."
37
"Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks."
41
"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."
49
"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."
42
"I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins."
43
"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."
52
"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs."
44
"Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while."
47
"And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died."
48
"I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring."
64
"It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill."
73
"Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost."
56
"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace."
46
"The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant."
63
"You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good."
40
"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
58
"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction."
42
"Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth."
47
"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability."
55
"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner."
56
"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
43
"I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat."
24
"It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot."
35
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
39
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
89
"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
43
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
64
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
52
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
59
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
Past,
57
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