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Buts Quotes (page 701)

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. Daphne du Maurier
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us. Emile M. Cioran
The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else. Charles Dickens
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library. J. D. Salinger
Arthur Golden quote: "Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but..."
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together... Arthur Golden
...one part of love is sweet and easy, something we fall into and are swept away by. But the other part is hard: it requires discipline, willpower, and opening your heart again and again to someone with whom you are angry, can't stand, and do not like. Sam Keen
Kate DiCamillo quote: "That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you..."
That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing. Kate DiCamillo
When we slid the body into the grave, we both were shaken to the core. The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig. E. B. White
John Keats quote: "We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we..."
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. John Keats
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it. Martin Luther King jr.
His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked. Franz Kafka
Terry Prachett quote: "Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the..."
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. Terry Prachett
Oscar Wilde quote: "I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong,..."
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. Oscar Wilde
Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die. Tom Stoppard
Lou Holtz quote: "Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always..."
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. Lou Holtz

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