Scinocca Tall Quotes & Sayings

We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.
So too often what passes for literary criticism is "I couldn't picture that guy", or "I liked that part", or "this part shouldn't have happened." That is, we've left language so far behind that sometimes we judge quality solely based on a story's actions.
So we can appreciate a novel that constructs its conflicts primarily through plot - the layered ambiguity of a fatal car accident caused by a vehicle owned by Gatsby but driven by someone else, for instance. But in this image-drenched world, sometimes we struggle to appreciate and celebrate books where the quality arises not exclusively from plot but also from the language itself. — John Green

Of this crisis in my life, I remember chiefly a sense of tremendous inevitability, a feeling that fate was settling its own problems, and too much reflection would be out of place. — Anthony Powell

To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let unimportant things take over the things of real importance. — Carolyn J. Rasmus

I keep everything that's private private. — Kate Bosworth

I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday. I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name. — Arsene Wenger

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else. — Gregory Bateson

Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom. — John Milton

Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood. — Marcel Proust

I don't work, I live ... I don't have a job, I just have a life. — Conor McGregor

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America. — Jerry Rubin

Man have to have friends even in hell. — Miguel De Cervantes

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at. — Marilyn Manson

Life is a circle, like it or not that's the law. — Deyth Banger

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance. — Hortense Odlum

There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously, the audience is, "Oh, this isn't so bad." — David Schwimmer