Quotes About Greene

Our interests were different, of course - tatting and dahlias have nothing in common, unless perhaps they are both interests of rather lonely people.

The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive.

God save us always,' I said, 'from the innocent and the good.

All right. I know I'm behaving badly, and I'm going to go on behaving badly. This is a situation where people do behave badly.

Didn't he posses in the end the winning cards - the cars of gentleness, humility and trust.

Drop that gun, you fool. This is London.

Indeed I have a great fellow feeling for rats. The future of the world lies with the rat. God

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

If I were following trends, I would never have done 'Ringo.'

if you know the quantum wavefunction right now for every particle in the universe, Schrödinger's equation tells you how the wavefunction was or will be at any other moment you specify. This

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

It was his own miscegenation--his sensual enjoyment of a dark forbidden culture and his own forbidden longings and love--that dovetailed in his writings.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

Once I found out that track and field was an organized sport, the era I followed more closely was that of Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson.

I'm very upset about Jan. 6.

Greene's writing—he was the first modern writer I liked. Before Greene, my heroes were all novelists from the nineteenth century. Living in the nineteenth century can expand your loneliness; as a writer, it's lonely living there.