Biesheuvel Auction Quotes & Sayings

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint. — Orhan Pamuk

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee. — Hannah Whitall Smith

To me and the rest of the world your poetry is a gift. — Delano Johnson

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H.L. Mencken

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return. — Whittaker Chambers

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be. — Ethan Hawke

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry McMurtry

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture ... Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force ... The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge ... — Adolf Hitler

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3. — Steve Zahn