Hemingwayness Quotes & Sayings

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line. — Charles Bukowski

Whate'er we leave to God,
God does and blesses us. — Henry David Thoreau

Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago. — Jay Leno

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard. — Elvis Costello

I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life. — Cory Booker

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial. — Gregory Benford

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism. — Sigmund Freud

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me. — Margaux Hemingway

Blake smiled while greeting him and turned to introduce me to his friend from Camp Lejeune. Blake made the formal introductions while I studied the two distinguished men. I liked the way they both carried themselves in a dignified manner with confidence, but not too much that they seemed arrogant. I was fascinated by them. Sleek. Forget eye candy. These two are like eye caffeine. I feel energized just looking at them. — Debra Kay

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on — Wendelin Van Draanen

Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be. — Rhawn Joseph

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse. — Bayard Taylor

When we lose someone, it is not the loss that makes us sad. It is the thought of all our missed chances. — Ira N. Barin

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. — Gore Vidal