Books Quote by Anthony Burgess Download Open image ““Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.”” — Anthony Burgess ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Literature Reading
“Shit happens, but it only stinks as long as you keep it around.” — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
“Great. Everyone’s gonna sweat and stink for the rest of the day. That’s so nasty.” — Marcus Emerson Copy Share Image
“Oh, get off it with that. So sensitive about language. Mate, love, nest, whatever. Point is, it stinks, especially when it goes bad. I… — Jackson Lanzing Copy Share Image
“Has anything in particular been bothering you? Plenty of things. I can't remember some of them, but they piss me off anyway.” — Isamu Fukui Copy Share Image
“It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You have this way of making totally benign things sound…absolutely filthy.” Her breath rushes out as her cheeks flush pinker than they were before.” — Lili Valente Copy Share Image
“It's a dungeon, Leila. They're Supposed to smell." Mission accomplished. The stench might have actually killed my new appetite. If hell could fart, it… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
