English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Nathanael West Quotes

Nathanael West quote: "Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience..."

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Nathanael West

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi quote: "I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me,..."
I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
And so sometimes when you feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened- or when you look up in the sky and are surprised at the sight of bright Jupiter between clouds, and everything suddenly seems stuffed with a vast significance-consider that some other person somewhere is entangled with you in time, and is trying to give some push to the situation, some little help to make things better. Then put your shoulder to whatever wheel you have at... Kim Stanley Robinson
Jim Elliot quote: "Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without..."
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. Jim Elliot
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to..."
Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows! P. G. Wodehouse
Anne Rice quote: "I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of..."
I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways. Anne Rice
By marrying her, Tony Takitani brought the lonely period of his life to an end. When he awoke in the morning, the first thing he did was look for her. When he found her sleeping next to him, he felt relief. When she wasn't there, hefelt anxious and searched the house for her. There was something odd forhim about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonelycaused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again. Haruki Murakami
Paul Rand quote: "Don't try to be original; just try to be good."
Don't try to be original; just try to be good. Paul Rand
Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part. Charlaine Harris
Sammy Cahn quote: "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you wont be..."
Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you wont be punished Sammy Cahn
Mother Teresa quote: "God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. Mother Teresa
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. George Soros
He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you. David Foster Wallace
Charles Dickens quote: "It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God,..."
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Charles Dickens
They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine. Hugh Miller
Colin Firth quote: "I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to..."
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. Colin Firth