Downriver The Book Quotes & Sayings

To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort. — J.R. Moehringer

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them. — Sania Mirza

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility. — Mason Cooley

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature
poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has not hitherto been put in story form, criticism that mingles a search for new truth with bravado. We should neither scoff at this trial margin nor take it too seriously. Without it, literature becomes inert and complacent. But the everyday person's reading is not, ought not to be, in the margin. He asks for a less experimental diet, and his choice is sound. If authors and publishers would give him more heed they would do wisely. They are afraid of the swarming populace who clamor for vulgar sensation (and will pay only what it is worth), and they are afraid of petulant literati who insist upon sophisticated sensation (and desire complimentary copies). The stout middle class, as in politics and industry, has far less influence than its good sense and its good taste and its ready purse deserve. — Henry Seidel Canby

You've never been in love?"
"Until you ... no. And no one has loved me either. — S.C. Stephens

The lens is a tyranny. — David Hockney

I wanted to freeze
in the moment in my mind
forever
because there's nothing better
than flutters of the heart — Lisa Schroeder

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. — G.K. Chesterton

I'd bitch slap the devil for you. — Janet Evanovich