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literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. Carl Sandburg
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
literature appreciated rudeness
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature dresses solicitude
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen
literature incapability university
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov
literature proportion interpretation
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes. Dana Gioia
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
wants
Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else? Lyle Thomas
wanting
I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court. Pat Riley
want pay attention
If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money. Brandon Steiner
want humans seems
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace. Brandon Sanderson
want living-things
Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free Aravind Adiga
want extraordinary-life extraordinary
Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life. Augustus
want aging castro
I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies Art Buchwald
want nervous breakdown
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
want reverence feels
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. Ayn Rand
veils
Necessity is God's veil. Simone Weil
veils again-and-again
When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was. Rumi
veils deals creatures
All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us. Martin Luther
veils action illusion
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. Friedrich Nietzsche
veils rich myth
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. C. S. Lewis
veils midnight strange
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. Harriet Beecher Stowe
veils ill wells
In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill. Francis Thompson
veils
The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you. Aiden Wilson Tozer
veils faces eternity
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! Alexander Smith