Quotes of the Day
Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 14, 2014
- He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
- John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969), drama critic
- I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
- Robert Orben
- Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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