Books Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up;…

— Virginia Woolf

“The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely…

— David Foster Wallace

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate…

— Edgar Allan Poe

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein,…

— Alice James

“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness, the kind…

— Neena H. Brar

“Earlier on I said something so lucidly philosophical that my oratory rambled non-stop right into expressing amazement I had just said that.”

— Beth Myrle Rice

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to…

— Steven Millhauser

“The twinkle that softens the review; the martyr's super-logic and the child's intuition; the fact that a fragment of moss can pull back into…

— Beatrice Warde

“But I found out then, and never have forgotten since, that we never read the dull explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we…

— Mark Twain

“Do all brilliant ideas seem brilliant from the very beginning, or do they seem far-fetched until they come into clearer focus?”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity…

— María Dueñas