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Something Quotes by E. M. Forster
- In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up…
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
- As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with…
- The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something…
- A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
- But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
- Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
- We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
- There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
- There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
- I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
- For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
- We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow…
- There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could…
- When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
- When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen