Joubert Literature Quotes & Sayings

I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing. — Lauren Bacall

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. — Kendrick Lamar

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. — Hans Reichenbach

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space. — Don DeLillo

Because hearing you laugh makes everything okay — Abbi Glines

When I come crawling home, bleeding and filthy and exhausted, the house is dark and empty. — Ilona Andrews

There are many men like this; they can form a plausible theory and grasp its logical points, but take it away from them and destroy it utterly before their eyes, and they will not so easily lash their tired brains at once to build another theory in place of the one that is ruined. — Lord Dunsany

He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people died like dolls being discarded; in science fiction enormities of space and time conspired to crush the humans ; and even in P.G. Wodehouse he felt a hollowness, a turning away from reality that was implicitly bitter, and became explicit in the comic figures of futile parsons. — John Updike

You never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice — Lauren Conrad

And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster. — Annie Barrows

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. — Joseph Joubert

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. — Hu Jintao

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten. — Julia Ormond

A small waist makes you tire easily. — Erma Bombeck

Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you've taken part in this fight ... You can't imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion. — Jack White

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. — Joseph Joubert