Luiselli Author Quotes & Sayings

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much ... But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching. — William Maxwell

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play. — John Kessel

Anyone ever teach you to run away from danger " "Don't be stupid Ellis." I open the door. "That's where all the fun is. — Addison Moore

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity. — Annie Besant

It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country. — Graham Greene

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men. — Bianca Jagger

You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out.
Happy and judged or absolved and miserable. — Albert Camus

The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King's oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed people everywhere. — Troy Jackson

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business. — Akio Morita

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? — William Shakespeare

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone. — Arthur Schopenhauer