Quotes About Insight

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror.

Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

The best university is the university of life.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.