Howcroft Street Quotes & Sayings

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall. — Henry Ward Beecher

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information. — Philip Treacy

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She felt anger rippling through his muscles and knew that she had stumbled upon an old, yet still raw, emotional scar. — Ruth Cardello

That which does not kill you isn't finished. — Dana Gould

You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian. — Robert A. Heinlein

While it is in no way racist for any author to write a book exclusively about white women, it is fundamentally racist for books to be published that focus solely on the American white woman's experience in which that experience is assumed to be the American woman's experience. — Bell Hooks

Fire on anything that moves on the river. — Kingoro Hashimoto

Success can bring you happiness, finding happiness is success — Benny Bellamacina

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams. — Tim Ferriss

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident — Gabrielle Zevin

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all. — Steve Burton

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map. — Edward Witten