Engelsman Gregory Quotes & Sayings

My theory was that readers just thought they cared nothing but the action; that really, although they didn't know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialog and description. The things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of his death he was trying to pick a paper clip off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half open in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn't even hear death knock on the door. That damn little paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers. — Raymond Chandler

John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine. — Leo Tolstoy

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring stuff in, and it's oftentimes the stuff that I've gotten rid of that's the stuff that everyone else is like, "yeah!!!!" — John Dieterich

Jesus knows the intentions of our hearts and what we do in secret. — Billy Graham

Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable. — Gail Jones

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential. — Thomas Watson Jr.

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder. — Andrew Tobias

It's been a pretty tough day," he said. "No sense making it worse with a salad. — Susan Juby