Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Emerson's Essays

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Ender's Game

We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that

Glass Houses

Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.

Best Served Cold

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

The Beauty Myth

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Andrew Sullivan

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Boris Pasternak

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

John Cheever

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Louis L'Amour

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Mark Haddon

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

Peter Morgan

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

Paul Theroux

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

V. S. Naipaul

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Indexing

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life