Quotes About Author

Sam writes in her funny, fascinating memoir, Not By Accident.

The 'factious person' ... is the one who insists on such divisive debates even when their consequences become obvious. Such a person would rather be right than righteous, would rather maintain theoretical integrity than the health of the community. ,264

inspiration is no guarantee of truth, any more than a profound religious experience is a guarantee that it comes from a good source.

Our author warns us that inspiration, enthusiasm, earnestness, even honesty about what one believes is no guarantee of truth.

God bless Ani DiFranco is all I got to say.

My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

Vol. 4: Complete Poems in English, Milton

The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.

reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1757 he was sent to England

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.