top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
Standard
Customized
More
"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
Author Name
Personal Development
"This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
Values
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Rules
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Simplicity
bottom of page