Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), "On the Blue Water," Esquire, April 1936
- Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
- Rhys Alexander, Writing Gooder, 12-09-05
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html
- Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
|