Oldest Quotes

320 quotes by 280 authors

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read… — Khaled Hosseini
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all… — John Irving
Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be… — Markus Zusak
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown — H P Lovecraft
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. â€œExplanations?â€ I bellowed. â€œExplanations? Thereâ€™s… — Stephen Fry
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I… — Orson Scott Card
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. — Ann Brashares
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as… — Don DeLillo
It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away. — Sue Monk Kidd
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my… — Neil Gaiman
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we… — William Shakespeare
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of… — Carlos Fuentes
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And itâ€™s no wonder. Weâ€™re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story… — Brian Greene
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. — H P Lovecraft
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band. — Bob Dylan
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. — Kay Ryan
Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one. — Emily Dickinson

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