Agony Quote by Hortense Calisher Download Open image “Agony without genius was gaucherie.” — Hortense Calisher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agony Genius Suffering
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand.… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. — John Keble Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has… — Kane Copy Share Image
