Steve Harley Quotes & Sayings

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. — E. M. Forster

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, the body - its hungers, needs, and limitations. You look at somebody and you realize that they're in there, inside there, somewhere, and how will you ever reach them, understand them? — Richard Siken

Even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying. — Malala Yousafzai

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. — Janet Fitch

Pride doesn't go before a fall, it keeps you from falling. — Shane Peacock

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash. — Zadie Smith

What earth is this
so in want of you
they rise up on high
to seek you in heaven?
Look at them staring
at you
right before their eyes,
unseeing, unseeing, blind. — Mansur Al-Hallaj

Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water? — Utada Hikaru

Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests. — Antal Szerb

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end ...
Charlie: When do the good things start? — Charles M. Schulz

Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be. — Thomas S. Monson

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions. — Paul McCartney