Fox Grapes In Virginia Quotes & Sayings

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. — Frederick Rolfe

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. — Philip Yancey

A girl takes my tongue, signs her name
& asks me how do I like it? — Sapphire.

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath. — Ludwig Boltzmann

When you don't have a next place to go, time slows down enormously. — Cecelia Ahern

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear. — Plato

There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature
poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has not hitherto been put in story form, criticism that mingles a search for new truth with bravado. We should neither scoff at this trial margin nor take it too seriously. Without it, literature becomes inert and complacent. But the everyday person's reading is not, ought not to be, in the margin. He asks for a less experimental diet, and his choice is sound. If authors and publishers would give him more heed they would do wisely. They are afraid of the swarming populace who clamor for vulgar sensation (and will pay only what it is worth), and they are afraid of petulant literati who insist upon sophisticated sensation (and desire complimentary copies). The stout middle class, as in politics and industry, has far less influence than its good sense and its good taste and its ready purse deserve. — Henry Seidel Canby

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell. — Katie Aselton

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night. — Simon Van Booy

The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason. — Barry Diller

I'm certain I taste like a boiled potato," she declared. He — Grace Draven