The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“All right, little boy, he tried kidding himself, calm down now. Santa Claus is coming to town with all the nice answers.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,'… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“...and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reckoned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe.… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
“You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Even with Las Vegas giddy around me I felt as alone as Robinson Crusoe.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The novels of Daniel Defoe are fundamental to eighteenth-century ways of thinking. They range from the quasi-factual A Journal of the Plague… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
