Van Wyck Brooks Quotes

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Van Wyck Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1886 - May 2, 1963

Topics

GoodKnowledgePeopleSmallAlways

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

Jesse Ventura

TogetherGrowing UpGrowingRussia

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Melissa Etheridge

FeelYouUniqueWayTellCertain

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

Maurice Gibb

StarsLiveCarSmartDriveThink

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

Jean Paul Gaultier

MyselfCrazyFashionDriveTrying

Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

CultureFunHardestExcitingPart

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

Tony Abbott

TaxConCutIncreaseCompensate

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.

Roger Zelazny

NatureMindDoingLivingHuman

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Mary McCarthy

WorkManIdentityLaborMoreHuman

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

Mignon McLaughlin

DayFireManMouthWhyMars

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

Loudon Wainwright III

TimeBeginningI AmWritingSpeak

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Christopher Lasch

ChildPlaceNewsNewSameToy

We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.

Chelsea Manning

SupportFaceEndBuildNeedQueer

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