Quite Quotes - page 3

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. (Honoré de Balzac)
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
Anne Rivers Siddons
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo
I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.
Rosemary Sutcliff
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
Daniel Dennett
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
Jean Rhys
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Buckminster Fuller
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Germaine Greer
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand. (Thomas Malthus)
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
Leonard Bernstein
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.
John Singer Sargent
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so.
J. B. S. Haldane
Good God how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.
Edmund Burke
I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.
Anne Bancroft
Seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.
Joseph Stiglitz
People say: «Why don't you give it up?» I don't think they quite understand. I'm not doing it just for the money, or for you. I'm doing it for me.
Keith Richards
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. (Michael Korda)
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
Jonas Salk
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Gene Simmons
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
Beatrix Potter
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.
Joyce Carol Oates