Anthologists Quotes & Sayings

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living. — Max Anders

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home. — Tobias Wolff

L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning. — Dennis Lehane

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner - continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you - is a fine art, in and of itself. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it. — Luce Irigaray

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. — Stephen R. Covey

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones! — Keith Richards

I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured. — Margot Lee Shetterly

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income. — Harold Wilson

The older you get the more you live in the past — Walter Mosley

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. — Nicolas Chamfort