Showing posts with label Flannery O'Connor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flannery O'Connor. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments
and questions--as attempts to find out something.
Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche


"The more refined and subtle our minds,
the more vulnerable they are."
- Paul Tournier


"The best is yet to be ... so do it well."
- "The Man Without a Face" (movie)


"The truth shall make you odd."
- Flannery O'Connor


A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill


Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotaria

"Television has brought back murder
into the home - where it belongs."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"We build statues out of snow,
and weep to see them melt."
- Walter Scott

"As I grow older , I regret to say
that a detestable habit of thinking
seems to be getting a hold of me."
- H. Rider Haggard


"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university
stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could
have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery O'Connor

"Anybody can win unless there
happens to be a second entry."
- George Ade

"Charm is a way of getting the answer
yes without asking a clear question."
- Albert Camus

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes - Oneliner

"We are what we believe we are."
- C. S. Lewis


"Justice is truth in action."
- Benjamin Disraeli


"Sound is the vocabulary of nature."
- Pierre Schaeffer

"I could prove God statistically."
- George Gallup


I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Fiction is after truth."
- Flannery O'Connor