Showing posts with label H. Rider Haggard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H. Rider Haggard. Show all posts

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