Nearwicked Quotes & Sayings

People may ignore your conviction but they will take notice of the results. — Jack Canfield

And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan — Steve Kluger

A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go. — Larry David

I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I'm not sure. Perhaps because great books seem heavensent. Perhaps because I know that each nove is a puny but very valiant attempt at godlike behavior. Perhaps because there is no difference between the finest poetry and most transcendent mysticism. Perhaps because writers like Thomas Merton, who are able to enter the realm of the spirit and come away with fine, lucid prose. Perhaps because of more secular writers, like John Steinbeck, whose every passage, it seems to me, peals with religiousity and faith. It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people. — Paul Quarrington

I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come. — James Joyce

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. — John Roberts

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people. — Norman Lear

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end. — Susan Glaspell

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. — Charlie Munger

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive? — Frances Mayes

Rendezvous with the robots after a fast — Greg Bear