Important Modernist Quotes & Sayings

Woolf 's control over the production of her own work is a significant factor in her genesis as a writer. The Hogarth Press became an important and influential publishing house in the decades that followed. It was responsible, for example, for the first major works of Freud in English, beginning in 1922, and published significant works by key modernist writers such as T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein. Woolf herself set the type for the Hogarth edition of
Eliot's The Waste Land (1923), which he read to them in June 1922, and which she found to have 'great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry; & tensity. What connects it together, I'm not so sure' (D2 178). — Jane Goldman

Make all your friends feel there is something in them. — Christian D. Larson

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. — Edwin Land

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear. — Hayao Miyazaki

Love - love was a balm as much as it was a poison. — Sarah J. Maas

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. "You're my sacred ones," I told the books. "No one but me still cares about you. But I'm going to keep you with me forever. And one day I'll make you important again." I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell. — Gary Shteyngart

I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat. — Amaury Nolasco

And hey, bacon made everything better. — Jennifer Estep

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt? — Peyton Manning

I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels. — Dave Barry