E M Forster Famous Quotes
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves."
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake."
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E M Forster Quotations
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
Isaac Asimov
"The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow."
Charles Churchill
"I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure."
Marquis de Sade
"For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you."
Madeline Bridges
"To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart."
Unknown
"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."
Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
"Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty
"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life."
Stan Getz
"The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off."
Henry David Thoreau