Quotes part 16
I’m a touch behind here (like 24 minutes or so)…I apologize. It just seems to be how the day has gone.
“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” – Francisco Goya
“God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.” – Thomas Deloney
“Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He’s simply the acceptable face of invading realities.” – Clive Barker
“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.” – Haniel Long
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.” – Ralph W. Sockman
“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was stabbed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman’s name out of a satire; then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer -and if so, why?” – Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House
It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. —Tallulah Bankhead
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” — Neil Gaiman
‘It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.’ – Gustave Flaubert