Huneker Quotes & Sayings

There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man's only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place. — James A. Baldwin

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker. — James Huneker

There were more courses than O.J. has alibis. — Erin Gruwell

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. — James Huneker

There are uproars and there are uproars, and this uproar stayed up for a very long time. — Terry Pratchett

THE OWLS
by: Charles Baudelaire
UNDER the overhanging yews,
The dark owls sit in solemn state,
Like stranger gods; by twos and twos
Their red eyes gleam. They meditate.
Motionless thus they sit and dream
Until that melancholy hour
When, with the sun's last fading gleam,
The nightly shades assume their power.
From their still attitude the wise
Will learn with terror to despise
All tumult, movement, and unrest;
For he who follows every shade,
Carries the memory in his breast,
Of each unhappy journey made.
'The Owls' is reprinted from The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire. Ed. James Huneker. New York: Brentano's, 1919. — Charles Baudelaire

Baby, groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall. — Jennifer Weiner

A critic is a man who expects miracles. — James Gibbons Huneker

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others. — James Huneker

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal. — James Huneker

Janie's hip buzzes again. Maybe
she'll have to have her whole leg amputated, she thinks sadly. That
would really suck. — Lisa McMann

Married men make the best husbands. — James Huneker

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. — Steve Maraboli

Scholars really have nothing to teach you.
But from the soft touch of the eyelashes of
a woman you will know all there is to know about happiness. — Omar Khayyam

He's a pig and I don't allow livestock in the house. — Erin McCarthy

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. — James Huneker

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. — James Huneker

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. — James Gibbons Huneker

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating. — James Huneker

A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits. — James Hutton

Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing. — Tom Scholz

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year. — Julian Bond

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. — James Huneker

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy. — James Huneker

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent! — James Huneker

All men of action are dreamers. — James Huneker

It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message. — Ernest Hemingway,

I do have friends, but they don't know me, only someone I've created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out. — Ellen Hopkins