John Fowles Mantissa Quotes & Sayings

The problem with such guidelines is that they never seemed applicable to the real-world situation. — Tori L. Harris

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker. — Teri Hatcher

When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to. — Charlotte Eriksson

If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher. — CLAMP

The "thesis neurosis" has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowardly to address. This student will never graduate. — Umberto Eco

On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies. — H.G.Wells

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician. — Jeff Tweedy

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. — Quentin Bell

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching! — Archibald Thomas Robertson