If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation. - Bradford Morrow

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

Bradford Morrow

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

Cliche, Emerson, Ideas, Ifs, Revelations, Wrote

Same Author Quotes

How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors

Desire, Dream, Improvised, People, Whole, Wonder

Melissa Pritchard is a treasure.

Melissa, Pritchard, Treasure

Similar Quotes

George Crumb

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

Confess, Determined, Good, Littles, Spanish

P. G. Wodehouse

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

Attempt, Girl, Loved, Mean, Paint, Portraits

Nicolas Sarkozy

I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar.

Bear, Bears, Liar, Liars, Netanyahu

Neil Postman

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

Childhood, Creates, Reading, Scourge

Karlfried Graf Durckheim

Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging. . . in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

Art, Ceremony, Deeper, Fall, Flower, Scrutiny