Wolcotts Form Quotes & Sayings

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack. — Don Frye

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers-Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams-spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland. — Jonathan Raban

70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next. — Robert Gregory Browne

Stories survive not just because of empathetic characters that we can still identify with but because the author has something to say to us and they have the ability to communicate that to the reader in a clear and often amusing way. Jane Austen knows how to hook a reader with her endearing and often infuriating characters but she also keeps us hooked by her wit, her observations, and her unique use of language. Lots of other writers had books published at the same time as Jane Austen and yet they've been lost to us. Austen has survived because she has a unique voice. But the themes she explores are also important. — Victoria Connelly

The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right. — Harry Crews

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. — William Wordsworth

I don't think reality has much weight when fear is in control. — Linda Fagioli-Katsiotas

She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it! — Andrew Aydin

Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man. — Dennis Farina

When you touch me, good God. — James Brown

except for military lawyers and legal aid/public defenders, who reported the highest job satisfaction.106 — Susan Swaim Daicoff