Paul Beatty Famous Quotes
"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door."
Paul Beatty Quotations
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Bible
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
W Somerset Maugham
"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it."
Frank Tyger
"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war."
Robert E Lee
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child
William Shakespeare
"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around."
Georges Bernanos
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
Jane Austen
"Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom."
Bernard De Voto
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve