Squiggle Pen Quotes & Sayings

The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter. — John Banville

who sought heaven
under a mountain of stone,
sat thinking
till he realized
the land of blessedness exists
in the imagination - — Allen Ginsberg

Then she fell back exhausted, for these transports of vague love wearied her more than great debauchery. — Gustave Flaubert

Well, then, we may as well find somewhere to have tea. After spiritual comes bodily refreshment. — Barbara Pym

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion. — Robyn

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle. — Gautama Buddha

Google is your friend, people. I'm serious. It's not a person, it's a collective group of people who want to help each other, and that's a good thing. — Elle Casey

This is not to say that power and security are the sole or even the most important objectives of mankind; as a species we prize beauty, truth, and goodness. . . . What the realist seeks to stress is that all these more noble goals will be lost unless one makes provision for one's security in the power struggle among social groups. . . . A moral commitment lies at the heart of realism. . . . What Morgenthau and many other realists have in common is a belief that ethical and political behavior will fail unless it takes into account the actual practice of states and the teachings of sound theory. — Robert Gilpin

If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it up. — James Alexander Thom