Fritiof Billquist Quotes & Sayings

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. — Joseph Joubert

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own. — Jasper Fforde

All I wanted was to follow my heart, but somehow along the way I lost my soul. — K.K. Allen

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. — Edith Sitwell

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. — David Benioff

Are you . . . a policeman?"
"No. They'll be along shortly, I expect. Public suicide's a felony."
". . . I'm sorry. — James Tiptree Jr.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet. — Blaise Pascal

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. — Charlie Haden

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. — Arthur Ashe

Only just now she said to me, 'I am very happy, papa!' When they say 'father' stiffly, it sends a chill through me; but when they call me 'papa,' it brings all the old memories back. I feel most their father then; I even believe that they belong to me, and to no one else. — Honore De Balzac

They called it the bamboo-shoot existence, the onion life, every layer you peeled away made you cry more, and even if you could find the food you couldn't get it home because dysentery was breeding in the street mud and you might trail it back to your family. — Anonymous

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. — Patrick Macnee

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go. — Alan Dale

And the Three Bears: No one ever questions why the Papa Bear and Mama Bear slept in separate beds. What was going on in that marriage? More backstory needed. — Jim Gaffigan