Everting Everting Quotes & Sayings

Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses, I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called "great books." That, for instance, Mann's asinine "Death in Venice," or Pasternak's melodramatic, vilely written "Dr. Zhivago," or Faulkner's corn-cobby chronicles can be considered "masterpieces" or at least what journalists term "great books," is to me the sort of absurd delusion as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair. My greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose are, in this order: Joyce's "Ulysses"; Kafka's "Transformation"; Bely's "St. Petersburg," and the first half of Proust's fairy tale, "In Search of Lost Time. — Vladimir Nabokov

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely. — Andy Daly

She could not think what it would be to teach school twelve miles away from home, along among strangers. The less she thought of it the better, for she must go, and she must meet whatever happened as it came.
"Now Mary can have everting she needs, and she can come home this next summer," she said. "Oh, Pa, do you think I - I can teach school?"
"I do, Laura," said Pa. "I am sure of it. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong ...
Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long!
Then it hit me, Oh please God no,
Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe ...
He pulled a fast one on me, yo! — Fatlip

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.' — David Agus

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. — Confucius

If you seek the presence of God, you will see the glory of God: — Lailah Gifty Akita

I want you wet for me at all times. I don't know when I might want to fuck you. — Alexandra Iff

Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others. — Dale Dauten

Are you all right, Sir?"
Yes, I'm fine. My life is totally ruined but I'm fine. I feel free, detached from everything."
"Then you're an outsider to life. — Tionne Rogers

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state. — William Gibson

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn't matter. It's that he found another world in it. — Rene Denfeld

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class. — Tucker Carlson