Lawrence Durrell Quotes

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Lawrence Durrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990

Topics

JourneyTimeLonelinessNightBecome

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

Melissa Bank

TeacherCollegeThinkLiterature

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Robert Green Ingersoll

ProgressLibertyBreath

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

Michael Bastian

WorldBetterEveryoneLittleTake

There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.

John Sherman Cooper

New YorkStepPlayNewTouchFair

I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.

Amy Cuddy

GoodSmartPeopleEnoughValuesWho

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

Sterling K. Brown

SchoolDoingCountryOverWonderful

My legacy is secure.

Tony Bellew

LegacySecure

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

Tom Lehrer

PeopleMeWritingNightReadingYou

Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.

Dinesh Paliwal

TouchSeeSomethingGetDistracted

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

Dick Wolf

MyselfSeeHardly

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

Cherie Blair

GoodWomenGirlPeopleControlFeel

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

Bonnie Hunt

GreatSenior CitizensSeniorCitizens

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