1797 quotes by critics for you to enjoy

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. bell hooks

People Fear Drop Earth Draw Surround Heavenly Us Creatures Nearer

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved. bell hooks

Beautiful You Judge Space Internet Somebody Skin Think Those Color Like Involved Looks None Whether Converse Skin Color Things Basis

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. bell hooks

Me Books Through Come Ideas Always

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge. bell hooks

Knowledge Class Money About More Also Than

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. Alphonse Karr

Reality Regret Worst Evils Uncertainty Until Makes Us Moment

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr

Happiness Composed Misfortunes Avoided

Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president. Ana Navarro

Vote Yourself Remember Safety Important President Our Valued Most Most Important Thing Democratically Protest Important Thing Sake Precious America Just Common The Most Important Against Elect Us Sanity Express Express Yourself Right Thing Here

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. Andrea Dworkin

Women Commitment Men Distinguished Rather Than Victimized Violence

No one likes change but babies in diapers. Barbara Johnson

Change Babies No-One Likes Diapers

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. Brooks Atkinson

Life Truth Seems Written Been Quintessence Basic

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. Charles Lamb

Legal Lawyer Sides Take He Cannot Who Two

What is reading, but silent conversation. Charles Lamb

Conversation Reading Silent

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb

Friendship Respected Talk Nonsense Privilege Tis Her

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. Charles Lamb

Time Me Space Nothing More Troubles Puzzles Time And Space Than Less

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Charles Lamb

Time Good Give Because Chiefly Us Riches

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. Clive Bell

Work Art Strange Complicated Result Mind Rose Air Earth Visible Above Bosom Similarly Human Product Human Mind Activities

It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure. Craig Brown

Sometimes Old Lonely Old Friends Sole Football Feel Arms Reveal Friends Survivor Being Themselves Hard Succumbed Film Zombie Lure Last

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. George Steiner

Noise Culture Something Wrong Terribly

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