Drinking Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image “Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drinking History Ocean Writing Writing history
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period. — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“We were still twirling around the tiny parking lot when the neighbors screamed 'Happy New Year'. Unfortunately we weren't sober enough to realize that… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls. — Anistatia R. Miller Copy Share Image
