(4328 quotes found)
“Continued eloquence is wearisome”
Blaise Pascal
“Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.”
David Lee Roth
“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”
Chaim Potok
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
Susan Sontag
“When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.”
William Carlos Williams
“Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the milky way.”
William Wordsworth
“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”
W. H. Auden
“I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.”
Saul Steinberg
“The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues”
Louis Wolfson
“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death”
Robert Maynard Hutchins
