Lxxvii Mean Quotes & Sayings

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride. — Tom Ford

It would have been so stupid, Niki went on, If you would just accepted everything the way it was and just stayed where you were. At least you made an effort. — Kazuo Ishiguro

All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative - good old-fashioned storytelling - is what should pull your readers along without their noticing the tug. — William Zinsser

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The time I spent in the jungles held unalloyed happiness for me, and that happiness I would now gladly share. My happiness, I believe, resulted from the fact that all wildlife is happy in its natural surroundings. In nature there is no sorrow, and no repining. A bird from a flock, or an animal from a herd, is taken by hawk or carnivorous beast and those that are left rejoice that their time had not come today, and have no thought of tomorrow. — Jim Corbett

Conductors are performers. — Michael Tilson Thomas

The reason the knives are so sharp online is because the pie is so small. — Ryan Holiday

A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35? — E.W. Howe

All literature is ultimately gossip. — Truman Capote

How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity! - — Arthur Schopenhauer

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. — Haruki Murakami

It is a part of our office to stand uncloaked, masked, sword bared, upon the scaffold for a long time before the client is brought out. Some say this is to symbolize the unsleeping omnipresence of justice, but I believe the real reason is to give the crowd a focus, and the feeling that something is about to take place. A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it. Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart. Before the Hall of Justice, a ring of dimarchi surrounded the scaffold with their lances, and the pistol their officer carried could, I suppose, have killed fifty or sixty before someone could snatch it from him and knock him to the cobblestones to die. Still it is better to have a focus, and some open symbol of power.
Wolfe, Gene (1994-10-15). Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (p. 184). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition. — Gene Wolfe