Herman Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not…
— Nicole Krauss
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Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-†“It’s Herman Melville.
— Daniel Handler
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IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when…
— Maurice Sendak
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My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist…
— John Irving
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est…
— Jane Leavy
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Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim…
— James Donald
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He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him,…
— Matthew Bright
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Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.
— Alveda King
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. ~Herman Hesse
— Herman Hesse
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Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Herman Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 33 Herman Quotes, led by these top contributors: