Nouvelle Gazette Quotes & Sayings

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition. — Walker Percy

Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men ...
(The Everlasting No) — Thomas Carlyle

These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps. — Nathan Filer

Those pinked-skinned Jesus freaks that made the laws and owned the prisons were makin' more money off the drug game than we ever did. — Connor Pritchard

In Shubert Alley that night, I had unwittingly reached the threshold of an entire landscape of alleys that would lead to a world of theaters, each a house packed with strangers both generous and mean, shabby and grand. It was to be a life full of the transitory moments, double-edged with ecstasy and loss, that I had already come to think of as the theater. — Frank Rich

In 1990 [Claudette Colbert] wished Vanity Fair readers "a fabulous new decade. I'm praying to make it to 2000. After all, I'll only be 97." She didn't quite make it. — Eve Golden

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. — Tom Barbash

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer. — Samuel Willard

Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing! — Rutvik Oza

Regardless of type, however, the mechanism of a religion works like this: children, from the time they can communicate, are taught to see reality in a certain way. They are indoctrinated with a pre-defined belief structure and value set. Naive, open to such teaching, given only the religious viewpoint and perhaps punished or ostracized if they don't accept it, most ultimately absorb and mimic the religion outright. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces. — Havelock Ellis

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop. — Cynthia Voigt

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can't go back — Tony Goldwyn

Follow truth wherever it may lead you. — Thomas Jefferson