19487 quotes by writers for you to enjoy

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. Abraham Polonsky

Life Man Remember Rest Spend Could He Said His Trying

Money has no moral opinions. Abraham Polonsky

Money Moral Opinions

You must never throw away things that are worth good money. Abraham Polonsky

Good You Money Worth Must Throw Never Away Things

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? Abraham Polonsky

Animal Nice Live Think Wild Wild Animal Side Our East East Side Would Charley Only He Picked Columbus Instead Like Learn Boy Years Years Ago Up Jungle America Move Wanted Place Profession Grow Twenty Grow Up

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! Ada Cambridge

Alone Anchor Stay Beacon Chart Far Compass Near

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? Ada Cambridge

Life Fire Must Thus Hold Sparks Momentary

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? Ada Cambridge

Life Fraught Hopes More Noble Come Meaning Ages Naught

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. Adam Gopnik

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers. Adam Gopnik

Great Coffee More Drinkers Catch New Institution Sophisticated Terrible Traditional Up Trying York Shop Shops New York Coffee Shops

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity. Adam Gopnik

People Simplicity Think Drawn Idea Sophisticated Particularly Always

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity. Adam Gopnik

Cooking Side Showy

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. Adam Hochschild

Tribal Think Almost Almost All Instinct Aroused Makes Very Susceptible Human Buried Being Human Beings Patriotic Us Beings Profound

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious. Adam Hochschild

War World Problems Victory Made First Politicians Assume Seem Invariably Tendency Remarkably Lead Generals Clear Almost Obvious Hindsight First World First World War Foresee Nations Enduring Painfully Swift World War

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives. Adam Hochschild

Today Lie Will Men Seen Politicians Sense Doubt Needless Others France Spendthrift Those No Doubt Someday Folly Similar Generals Tens Tens Of Millions Feel Dead Sorrow Were Loss American Revulsion Cemeteries Who Wars Belgium Lives Millions

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center. Adam Johnson

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea. Adam Johnson

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. Adam Johnson

Life You Youth People Rest Secondary Aptitude Kim Characters Jobs Written Towards Opera Opera Singer Singer Korea Opposite Fisherman Dictated North North Korea Just Story Whether Regime Certain Your Farmer Measured Million Million People

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different. Adam Johnson

Life You Change Yourself Become Everyone Says Someone True Know Well America Any Going Different Turn Reinvent Things

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong. Adam Johnson

Speak Thought Visit Possible Citizens Would Would-Be Only Had Wrong Highly Since Look Known Genuine Korea Still Discover Foreigners North North Korea Interactions Scripted Them Illegal Unique

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. Adam Johnson

Character Change Dangerous Feelings Longing Think State Punished Hidden Entire Self Had True Spontaneity Revealing Were Personal Essential Human Human Actions Censored Whispering Acting Your Populace Actions Lest Growth Desire

Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. Adam McKay

Government Entitlement Corporations Ways Wealthy Finding Since New New Deal Non-Stop Deal Been Families Get New Ways Tax Tax Breaks Breaks Deregulation

Quotes by Writers