Joyce Cary Horse's Mouth Quotes & Sayings

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? — Louise Erdrich

Dr. Julian Huxley, famous English biologist and director of UNESCO, recently stated that Western scientists should "learn the Oriental techniques" for entering the trance state and for control of breathing. "What happens? How is it possible?" he said. An Associated Press dispatch from London, dated Aug. 21, 1948, reported: "Dr. Huxley told the new World Federation for Mental Health it might well look into the mystic lore of the East. If this lore could be investigated scientifically, he advised mental specialists, 'then I think an immense step forward could be made in your field. — Paramahansa Yogananda

There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world. — Deepak Chopra

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up. — John Stossel

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one. — Marilyn Monroe

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization. — Walt Disney

Take more time, cover less ground. — Thomas Merton

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister. — George Bernard Shaw

Only the men and the wind are completely free — Jean Sasson

When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life. — Joe Frank