Huckleberry Finn Symbols Quotes & Sayings

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. — Philip K. Dick

A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall. — Jonathan Maberry

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself. — Remy De Gourmont

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. — Tom Peters

and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us - some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again. — Julie Schumacher

When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands and glorious victories. It had come as rather a shock, when he later began to participate in some of these, to find that the painters had unaccountably left out the intestines. Perhaps they just weren't very good at them. — Terry Pratchett

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness! — Thomas Hobbes

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The man was a mystery to Jim. Sometimes, he seemed to be the perfect Southern gentleman from days long gone. At other times, he had an air of timelessness, that of someone who had seen and experienced much. — Philip C. Elrod

Happiness is our one ultimate end. Boil it right the way down, reduce all those motivational drivers, and sitting right there at the centre of our very human hearts, is our yearning to be happy. — Simon Pont

Observation: there was absolutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: it must be covered with life. — Carl Sagan

All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional. — T.I.

Never halt on a shifting slope. Even if you think you have a firm foothold ... — Rene Daumal