Isaac Larian Quotes & Sayings

Do we have time?" I asked. He smiled sadly. "If only," he said. — John Green

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. — Ezra Pound

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. — Knut Hamsun

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. — Colum McCann

The landscape which, a few weeks earlier, had been blotted out by dust was now hazy with moisture. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service? — George J. Stigler

What's ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn't they? — Danielle Steel

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. — Eric Hoffer

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself. — Zora Neale Hurston

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing. — Yevgeny Zamyatin