Middlebrow Literature Quotes & Sayings

SPENCE, THAT DOUR, IMPOSING LADY EAST OF LONDON, has grown a friendly face in my absence. I've never been so happy to see a place in all my sixteen years. Even the gargoyles have lost their fierceness. They are like wayward pets who haven't the sense to come in from the roof and so we let them live there, glaring but cheerful. — Libba Bray

All of us have available at all times a computer far more advanced than the most elaborate artificial intelligence machine - the human mind itself. — David R. Hawkins

Hence it is not the case that every bad man will become good, but no one will be good who was not bad originally. Yet — Augustine Of Hippo

It would take her thousands of steps to get anywhere, but she would get there easily, and when she arrived, in the present, it would seem like it had been a single movement that brought her there. Did existence ever seem worked for? One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future. — Tao Lin

Management is simple, innovation is hard. — James Cook

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped. — Mark Wigley

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — T.H. White

(a moon swims out of a cloud
a clock strikes midnight
a finger pulls a trigger
a bird flies into a mirror) — E. E. Cummings

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life. — Gyorgy Kepes

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. — Eric Burdon

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!' — Alexander Skarsgard

I see a dark light. — Victor Hugo

I don't like him," I explained. "He annoys the hell out of me ninety-six percent of the time, and sometimes I'd like nothing better than to strangle him to death. But at the same time I ... I want him to be happy. I think about him way more than I should, and I -"
"You love him. — Kody Keplinger