Unblurred Quotes & Sayings

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book. — Jonathan Lethem

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes. — Rachel Griffiths

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it. — Maria Sharapova

In pursuing a 'way,' Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred. — Dorothy Rowe

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness. — Eric Hoffer