Rynning Ralph Quotes & Sayings

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analysing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon. — D.H. Lawrence

I let my eyes drift down to his.
I like you rumpled. It's very ... sexy. — Katrina Abbott

Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake? — Amanda Seyfried

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate
even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth. Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness) — Norman Cousins

I loved history, any kind of history, and even better if it was hidden, secret, or underground. — April White

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. — Amy Heckerling

People protect what they love. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding. — W.G. Sebald