A.E. Curzon > A.E. Curzon's Quotes

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“When I grow old I want to regret the things I've done, not the things I haven't done.”
― Youngblood Hawke

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
― Edith Wharton

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”
― Alice Walker

“If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come home a horse.”
― Thomas Fuller