Quotes About Author

Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket.

H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's.

He spread his hands in a gesture more Gallic than Oriental.

I shouldn't have said 'retreat'; that word wasn't in the book. Retrograde action.

His core business still is self-promotion.

You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?

Dr. Fuhrman is the research director of the Nutritional Research Foundation. He is the author of several books

Thomas Goodwin said that "next to the Bible, he esteemed Dr. Ames, his Marrow of Divinity, as the best book in the world.

the means by which we might achieve the status of Christian legend.

studied theology and was preparing to become a missionary

Radical Homemakers, Shannon Hayes describes

She [Jo Spence] appeared in a photograph, taken for a series entitled Class Shame, holding a placard on which was written: 'Middle class values make me sick'.

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep.

he was very intemperate, and could not write until he had quickened his thoughts with large draughts of rum and water; that he was, in short, a bad character, and not fit to be placed in such a situation.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

the Home Secretary, Lord Palmerston, that wriggling mongoose of British politics.

those old women at Westminster

It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!

Too late she saw: what she'd favored him with in jest he had received with adoration.

And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!

God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

Mi è sempre parso, nei pochi romanzi che ho letto di quando in quando, che esigano parecchio dai lettori quegli autori che iniziano i loro racconti furiosamente, nel bel mezzo delle cose, invece che entrandovi, indietreggiando o di sbieco, con dolcezza.