Quotations
Quotes:
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
View quotes by Anais Nin
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
View quotes by André Gide
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
View quotes by Marianne Moore
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
View quotes by Aristotle
I'm very sorry, I don't know my PIN number. I'm only a banker [on being unable to buy a meal after CHIP and PIN!]
View quotes by James Crosby
I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.
View quotes by Lisa Nicole Carson
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
View quotes by Blaise Pascal
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
View quotes by André Gide
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.
View quotes by William Faulkner
As a result, we feel that as long as this continues, we are unable to associate our brand with the programme
View quotes by Charles Dunstone
I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
View quotes by Henry Bessemer
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
View quotes by G M Trevelyan
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
View quotes by Jimmy Breslin
Sadly, I have been unable to persuade FIFA, UEFA, and the Premier League to allow me to use 12 players in every game
View quotes by Rafael Benitez
He is accused of being arrogant, unable to cope with the press and a boozer. Sounds like he's got a chance to me [on Paul Gascoigne]
View quotes by George Best
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit
View quotes by Milton Babbitt
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
View quotes by P G Wodehouse
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
View quotes by Lewis Mumford
Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.
View quotes by Henry Blofeld
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