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One Quotes by John Burnside
- The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the…
- Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of…
- Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need…
- My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force…
- and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle