Books Quote by Gao Xingjian

“There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.”

— Terry Pratchett

“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from…

— Garth Greenwell

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

— Northrop Frye

If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his…

— Gao Xingjian

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

— Elif Safak

If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job…

— Robert Greene

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it,…

— Thomas Adams

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever…

— Dan Barker

If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what…

— Chris Rock

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from…

— Noam Chomsky

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise…

— Jesse Jackson