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“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”
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“The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2014). “The Sweet Science”, p.5, Macmillan
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“I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.”
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“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”
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“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”
Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”
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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
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“If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.”
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“I love love stories, no matter how dark.”
