#ask

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#bear #between #clear #connection #establishing

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.' ↗

— Tina Fey

#ask #away #doing #dreamed #ending

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#asking #asking questions #guilty #hell #i

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#count #give #hidden #hours #keep

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#garden #heaven #human #human life #life

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#asked #faulkner #great #had #know

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#door #family #join #knocking #more

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#critic #i #i do #me #say

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#consciousness #each #important #individual #lives