Clarice Beckett Quotes & Sayings

Claire happy to no longer expect ... but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life. — Jess Walter

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. — Italo Calvino

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere. — John Carney

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia. — Sam Trammell

Freedom brought a change in my song, made it soar, seeking out wonders and novelty. — Anthony Ryan

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now. — Jonathan Safran Foer

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood. — Barbara Kingsolver

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate. — Jo Brand

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did. — Edwidge Danticat

Survival Movement in Hostile Areas," most of which he could have quoted verbatim if somebody asked him, but really all you had to know was the acronym BLISS: B - Blends in with the surroundings L - Low in silhouette I - Irregular in shape S - Small in size S - Secluded — T.C. Boyle

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs, and black holes.
— Tom Stoppard

Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions. — Emil Cioran

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. — Thomas Carlyle

She had not prayed directly for the recovery of the baby - she had prayed that they might find a pearl with which to hire the doctor to cure the baby, for the minds of people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf. — John Steinbeck

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury