Fiascos In History Quotes & Sayings

I was looking for something else in books. I could not really say what, but I think I can say why: a notion started in my own brain was probably wrong, but an answer read in a work of literature would be right. That was my conviction at nineteen, and only in later years would I come to trust myself over a book. — Matthew Pearl

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness ... For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs. — Sherman Glenn Finesilver

I know of no task so salutory to the poet who would, first of all, put himself in touch with the resident genius of his own land. — Carl Sandburg

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master? — Courtney M. Privett

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on. — Philip Roth