S O Brien Famous Quotes
"Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery."
S O Brien Quotations
"Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor."
Lazarus Long
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Gerald N Weiskott
"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey."
John Hope Franklin
"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."
Carl Sandburg
"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives."
Camille Paglia
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Edgar Watson Howe
"For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence."
George Barrell Cheever
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.
Caitlin Matthews
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
Ambrose Bierce