Quotes About Sinclair

I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

I still have some of Sinclair's money in my pocket so when a waitress comes over and doesn't throw me out I order coffee. That seems to confuse her and she starts naming alternatives. "Maybe you mean an Americano? Maybe a flat white or a macchiato?" "Those all sound like wrestling holds. I just want coffee.

Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the only word that really seemed beautiful to me was tenderness.

We don't go for that kind of crap you have back in New York of being obliged to print both sides... We're going to get this son of a bitch Sinclair any way we can. We're going to kill him.

The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.

Much like CBS and CNN are run by liberal billionaires, Sinclair is run by a rich conservative, so there are natural questions to be asked, especially when Sinclair is poised to become such a powerhouse.

A quarantined unit, Sinclair had said, and it felt like it. Three guys in a room, shut away from the outside world, because they were all infected, with an alibi. —

Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. Her mother is a Sinclair.

WELCOME TO THE beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.

PENNY, CARRIE, AND Bess are the daughters of Tipper and Harris Sinclair. Harris came into his money at twenty-one after Harvard

I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family." "They're doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.

These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve

there are no new heresies, it seems, only old ones masquerading as new.

And, with a disregard for other things, he cherished and experienced That blessed communion with God about which he wrote.

To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.

cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly

his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change.

Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.

three gift copies of The Perennial Bachelor

she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.