Buddenbrooks Author Quotes & Sayings

The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live. — Leon Brown

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. — Dwight L. Moody

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. — James Huneker

Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth. — Wilferd Peterson

Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity. — Penn Badgley

Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows — Elvis Costello

On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues. — Jacques Barzun

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. — Robert Louis Stevenson