Obliquely Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like… — Gilles Deleuze
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, — Langston Hughes
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra… — Harper Lee
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. — H. M. Tomlinson
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,… — Tennessee Williams
As a reader, youâ€™re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what theyâ€™re feeling, even if they canâ€™t exactly say it, or… — Will Schwalbe
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. — Frank Moore Colby
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would… — Suzanne Vega
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). — Thomas Browne
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. — Florence King
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner… — Edward Hopper
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people… — Anne Lamott
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the… — Andre Gide
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.… — John Donne
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm… — Jim Butcher
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… — Alain de Botton
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity,… — Claire Messud
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with… — Paul Theroux

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