Scowcroft Center Quotes & Sayings

Just beyond the edges of our little circle of sunshine, a ferocious war was going on. — Haruki Murakami

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

People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see. — Jermain Defoe

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish. — Martin Freeman

My old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time lie bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones do on the sands — Daphne Du Maurier

faith and hope are fulfilled and that "only love endures" (1 Cor 13:13). — Jeffrey Kirby S.T.L.

Heavens protect us from the dress sense of American academics. — Neil Gaiman

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work ... the people around you just have to understand. — Catherine Yass