Joesph Conrad Quotes & Sayings

Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty — Kerrelyn Sparks

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. — Mark Z. Danielewski

This book was written by a traitor to his class. It is dedicated to bigots everywhere. Ladies and gentlemen of the black shirts, I call upon you to unite, to strike with claws and kitchen pokers, to burn the grub-worms of equality's brood with sulfur and oil, to huddle together whispering about the silverfish in your basements, to make decrees in your great solemn rotten assemblies concerning what is proper, for you have nothing to lose but your last feeble principles. — William T. Vollmann

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts. — Dwight Yoakam

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.' — Jose Rizal

and withholding. Everything I get from them is either inconclusive or subject to reinterpretation. Nothing is as it appears. — Michael Brandman

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo) — Haruki Murakami

Carrying his books from one life into the next was nothing new to Zuckerman. He had left his family for Chicago in 1949 carrying in his suitcase the annotated works of Thomas Wolfe and Roget's Thesaurus. Four years later, age twenty, he left Chicago with five cartons of classics, bought secondhand out of his spending money, to be stored in his parents' attic while he served two years in the Army. In 1960, when he was divorced from Betsy, there were thirty cartons to be packed from the shelves no longer his; in 1965, when he was divorced from Virginia, there were just under sixty to cart away; in 1969, he left Bank Street with eighty-one boxes of books. — Philip Roth

You have to be ready for luck. — Neil Leifer

Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real. — Nick Vujicic

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives. — Mahmoud Darwish

I don't always understand poetry!'
'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it ... whenever. — Alan Bennett

Stop me when I'm making too much sense. — John Fairclough

In December 2008 [Manny Pacquiao] defied the odds and pummeled the celebrated American boxer Oscar De Le Hoya into submission and permanent retirement.
An on-air exchange by the stunned HBO announcing team:
"Pacquiao is the most exciting little fighter in the world."
"Little?! He looks big tonight!"
"/Big/ little fighter in the world. — Alex Tizon