Collectanea Quotes & Sayings

Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front. — Henry Rollins

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant. — Hugh Kenner

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child

I've made love to her
finally and wholly, I've had her in every way I've wanted and needed. And I want more. I want to own her, and the idea she will someday share this with someone other than me is hard to swallow. — Elizabeth Finn

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary. — Robertson Davies

Maezr smiled. A hundred years ago, Ender, we found out some things. That when a commander's life is in danger he becomes afraid, and fear slows down his thinking. When a commander knows that he's killing people, he becomes cautious or insane, and neither of those help him do well. And when he's mature, when he has responsibilities and an understanding of the world, he becomes cautious and sluggish and can't do his job. So we trained children, who didn't know anything but the game, and never knew when it would become real. That was the theory, and you proved that the theory worked. — Orson Scott Card

I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music. — Vance Joy

It is the duty of every father ... to write fairy tales for his children. — Oscar Wilde

O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. — Alexander Pope

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'. — Holly Near

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished. — Michael Nesmith

Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless. — Azar Nafisi

The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space. — Eric Ives