Regattas At Argenteuil Quotes & Sayings

Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph out of a single sentence. The reader is completely sensory deprived of the story until the words show the way. If a reader were practiced, then James' prose could be followed and appreciated for its economy and elegance. — Christopher T. Garry

Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin. — Jeff Greenwald

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. — Henry Rollins

My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me. — Eli Manning

Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. — Craig Groeschel

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence. — A. Scott Berg

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. — Leonid Brezhnev

We went west willingly--because we had to. — Brigham Young

I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here. — Tom Cruise

War had taken hold of them and would never let them go. They would never really belong to their homes again. The war was over ... but the armies were still in being. — Ernst Von Salomon

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. — Earl Nightingale

Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. 'Automatic warfare' cancels them out, except in a passive form. Archidamus is at last being justified. Courage, skill and patriotism become shrinking assets. The most virile nation might not be able to withstand another, inferior to it in all natural qualities, if the latter had some decisively superior technical appliance.
(...)The advent of 'automatic warfare' should make plain the absurdity of warfare as a means of deciding nations' claims to superiority. It blows away romantic vapourings about the heroic virtues of war, utilized by aggressive and ambitious leaders to generate a military spirit among their people. They can no longer claim that war is any test of a people's fitness, or even of its national strength. Science has undermined the foundations of nationalism, at the very time when the spirit of nationalism is most rampant. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing. — Carl Jung

The deep, pure blue stirs on one's lips a smile, innocent as itself; like the clouds over the sky, and, as it were, with them, happy memories pass in slow procession over the soul — Ivan Turgenev

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig