Motherless Brooklyn Book Quotes & Sayings

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. — David Mamet

Don't waste your time with procrastinating, because that time you won't get back. Be productive, even if it means sitting in your bed and reading :D — Anonymous

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast. — Linda Nelson

I still buy books faster than I can read them. But again, this feels completely normal: how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. — Julian Barnes

So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile. — Will Rogers

Appreciate the moment. — Isamu Noguchi

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed. — Mark Twain

Even a passing moment has its fertile past. — Wislawa Szymborska

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. — C.S. Lewis

Chris and I care about each other and we're still friends. Tom is the most incredible man in the world. — Katie Holmes

A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master. — Alexander Hamilton

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind
— Emily Dickinson

You are the embodiment of selfishness. — Kate Chopin