Schmalen Quotes & Sayings

Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this earth to do? — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints. — Leon Bloy

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high. — Eudora Welty

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy

Music can reach those places where words alone can't go. — Arianna Huffington

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. — Polly Toynbee

Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault. — Victor Hugo

The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure was. — Michael Richardson

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind. — Mandy Moore

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. — Charles Lamb

He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on. — Lubomir Kavalek