Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist
To a writer the brain's greatest achievement is literature
Lawrence (D.H.) accepts life not with his brain but with his loins and bowels
There are half-invented people and half-conceived actions in my brain and these have to be completed and released into novels for the sake of my own comfort
There are two good reasons for writing much, if one can. The first is the need to earn; the second is the fear of an untimely death, which will prevent the half-formed books in one's mind from being realized. We know not the day nor the hour. I may be killed in a train accident when taking this present book to my publisher in London. You can see whether or not this happened by reading the blurb on the dust jacket
He saw, in one of his fiery instants, all beasts that ever were, torn, hunted, baited, betrayed, bleeding; their cries seared his brain
I am old enough to know that the only self-evident duty is to that image of order we all carry in our brains. That the keeping of chaos under with stern occasional kicks or permanent tough floorboards is man's duty, and that all the rest is solemn hypocrite's words to justify self-interest.
You must not think of this again, not with your brain of daylight
You must not think of this again, not with your brain of the daylight
The brain too is the body. It is a fine and cunning trelliswork, but we may eat brain as we eat feet and flanks. But there is one thing that is not to be eaten and that is the little fine saying I am I am I am
A bigger problem was to separate himself from his body - the hand worn to nothing, the lock of hair that fell into his eye, even the brain that scrurried with thoughts and words and images. It took long hours to die
The rain came from the sea and stood for life
His brain shuddered with memories, with expectations
I'v a brain like a garage sale. I'm a moral rubbish dump
I'm anxious not to miss the train. And then, when it arrives - I'm frightened of getting on it
I did not object to the opening up of the junk shop of my brain when that brain had ceased to be mine and had become merely part of the economy of the soil
The stress of invention is less arduous than the strain of word for word copying
Her brain was furnished with all the rubbish that the expert promoters of American values, comfort and stimulants could provide
If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble.
If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.