Genuine Quotes - Page 39

• I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

  Sara Coleridge

  Strong, Book, Men

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.175

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• When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Messages, Consciousness, Changing Your Life

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.78, Ultramarine Publishing

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• A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

  Shana Alexander

  Children, Luxury, Ponies

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

  Walter Scott

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People, Challenges, Everyday

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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• Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspired, Surprise, Arise

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.83

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• Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?

  David Hume

  Son, Sacrifice, Ignorant

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.

  Renata Adler

  Movie, Art, People

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• Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

  Moses Harvey

  Mind, Flavor, Innocent

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• Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

  Moses Harvey

  Culture, Wit, Small Amounts

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• A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

  Margery Allingham

  Mean, Luck, Superstitions

  Margery Allingham (2014). “Police at the Funeral”, p.68, Random House

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• Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Law, Broken

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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• Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

  Aeschines

  Noble, Amnesty

  Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159

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• Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Destiny, Errors, Facts

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.126

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• Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Paul Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is the one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength, and he is a genuine competitor.

  Thierry Henry

  Team, Player, Doubt

  "Paul Scholes earns plaudits from football's elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

  Vera Brittain

  Work, Passion, Careers

  Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”

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• At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs with sensuality and moral courage, as if it didn't take place in a society that denies the tick of the heart.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Moon, Voice

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• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Self, Independence

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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• There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Degrees, Sin

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• No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Safety, Thrift

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• A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

  Sam Hinton

  Song, Pride, Artist

  "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Book by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore 14:3, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.

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• The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Real, Leader

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

  Lynda Obst

  Earthquakes, Champion, Tears

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• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Meaningful, Perspective, Poetry

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