Famous Bartok Quotes & Sayings

All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk.
All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk. — Ernest Hemingway,

Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy. — Richard Sibbes

No god save self, that is the way to live ... — Conrad Aiken

I cannot write to anyone outside myself
if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please. — Shannon Hale

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine. — A.E. Van Vogt

It's his duty. A good healer can't pick and choose. If he can help, then he must. — Helene Wecker

That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that. — Holly Black

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men. — Stonewall Jackson

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. — John Tillotson

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. — Alice Walker

Stories. They're everywhere ... You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore) — Linda Newbery

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence. — Herman Melville

I'm an agnosto-theist. — Dan Savage

And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels! — Jacquel Chrissy May