Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser Quotes & Sayings

When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates. — George Herbert

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. — William McKinley

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos. — Mitt Romney

Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me. — Rachael Hanel

I had been granted unusual freedom and responsibility at an early age, for which I should have been grateful in the extreme, but I wasn't. Instead, I felt oppressed by the old man's expectations. It was drilled into me that anything less than winning was failure. In the impressionable way of sons, I did not consider this rhetorically; I took him at his word. And that's why later, when long-held family secrets came to light, when I noticed that this deity who asked only for perfection was himself less than perfect, that he was in fact not a deity at all - well, I wasn't able to shrug it off. I was consumed instead by a blinding rage. The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive. Two — Jon Krakauer

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive. — Juliette Lewis

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. — Dennis Farina