Book Quote by Edward Gorey Download Open image “The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.” — Edward Gorey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Helpful Looks Philosophy of Mind Writing
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas. — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
When you get the right representation, there's an ease that comes to your mind that allows you to focus on other things. — Rich Paul Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had better say it because it accounts… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“How elegant! how choice! how gay! To think one doesn’t have to pay. There is sound of falling tears; It comes from nowhere to… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.” — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
