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By doing just...

By doing just...

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

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Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a...

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Phillips Brooks: To say, well...

Phillips Brooks: To say, well...

To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them...

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Frederick Robertson: The true aim...

Frederick Robertson: The true aim...

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle...

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Martin H Fischer: I find that...

Martin H Fischer: I find that...

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for...

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Biologically the species...

Biologically the species...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: If literature isn't...

Jean-Paul Sartre: If literature isn't...

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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Moli?re: Long is the...

Moli?re: Long is the...

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Source: In Barnes & Noble Book of...

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Gotthold Lessing: He who doesn't...

Gotthold Lessing: He who doesn't...

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Source: In...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The screech and...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The screech and...

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: The more sand...

Jean-Paul Sartre: The more sand...

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Source:...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Novels are longer than life.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and Writers,...

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Gotthold Lessing: The most deadly...

Gotthold Lessing: The most deadly...

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished...

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Alan Bennett: Why is it...

Alan Bennett: Why is it...

Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?

Source: Forty Years...

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Philip Massinger: And what, in...

Philip Massinger: And what, in...

And what, in a mean man, I should call folly,
Is in your majesty remarkable wisdom.


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Edward Jenner: The joy I...

Edward Jenner: The joy I...

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its...

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Tom Peters: Excellent firms don't...

Tom Peters: Excellent firms don't...

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant...

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Alan Bennett: I was an...

Alan Bennett: I was an...

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of...

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Boris Yeltsin: Let's not talk...

Boris Yeltsin: Let's not talk...

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

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