Donald trump Quote by Jelani Cobb

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate…

— Thomas Wolfe

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell

“Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.”

— Harold Evans

“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances…

— Tom Holland

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before…

— Louis Zukofsky

“Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“spend not thy time in thinking, what such a man doth, and to what end: what he saith, and what he thinks, and what…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases…

— Hermann Hesse

“But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me—naively dazzled and wholly…

— Samuel R. Delany

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell