These Days Quotes - Page 36

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Taken, College, Childhood

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

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• In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sports, Games, People

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• I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Needs, Made

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• As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Book, Rap, Grandmother

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• Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

  Edna Buchanan

  Needs, Therapists, Psychiatry

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “The Britt Montero Series (Omnibus Edition)”, p.1443, Diversion Books

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• Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Government, America

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Religion, Baptists

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.18

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• Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. Its amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

  Graham McTavish

  Believe, Communication, Technology

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• Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dream, Fashion, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

  Joy Williams

  Believe, Guilt, Taste

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• Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon.

  Eugenia Sheppard

  World, Satisfaction, Massage

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• In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Long, Historical

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• These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.

  Guity Novin

  Art, Order, Community

  Negin magazine, No. 77, 1971.

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• This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Fun, Gauges, Excess

  "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

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• What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.

  Miss Read

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

  Miss Read (1977). “Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village”

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• Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

  Megan Fox

  Media, Voice, Our World

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content.

  Hannibal Buress

  Ideas, Creating, Progress

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

  M.C. Beaton

  Reality, Television, Trouble

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• These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Media, Turns, Catastrophe

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• Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.

  Munir Butt

  Selfish, Games, Hustle And Bustle

  Countryside Alliance Magazine interview, 2006.

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• London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

  Munir Butt

  London, Unbearable, Clean

  The Business Magazine, 2006.

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• To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

  African Spir

  Sacrifice, Reality, Shadow

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

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• When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

  Jo Brand

  People, Looks, Cry

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• If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

  Albert Brooks

  Hunting, Serial Killer, Looks

  "Interview: Albert Brooks Sees Into the Future" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.

  Alice Englert

  Cutting, Thinking, Space

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