Durell Quotes & Sayings

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away. — Ron Carlson

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now? — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim. — Donna Lynn Hope

I looked down at the board. "The point isn't to win?" I asked. "The point," Bredon said grandly, "is to play a beautiful game. — Patrick Rothfuss

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background. — Charles Lindbergh

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times. — Victor Salva

The only way to move forward is to focus on the good in your life and the good that you are doing for others and yourself. My past has shown me things in life, others and myself that I wouldn't wish upon anyone, but I can choose to pick up the pieces and build a beautiful life for myself and help others to do the same. — Brittany Burgunder

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane. — George S. Patton

I know this: there is no sense to grief. There is no pattern or shape or texture, and there are no books or stories which can lessen the pain at losing a person you have loved, and will always love. There are no rules, with loss. — Susan Fletcher

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions. — Neal Shusterman

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day. — Tom Rath

They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in. — Edward Durell Stone

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins. — Baron De Montesquieu

We moralize among ruins. — Benjamin Disraeli