Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
‐‐ Sue Grafton
Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.
‐‐ Howard Coble
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
‐‐ Chuck Berry
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker
Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
‐‐ Joan of Arc
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
‐‐ George Boole
Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
‐‐ Annette Funicello
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.
‐‐ John Lahr
Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
‐‐ Arsene Wenger
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
‐‐ Frida Kahlo
Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.
‐‐ Steve Albini
Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
‐‐ Alfred Noyes
Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he's dangerous. When you rage at him, you're just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
‐‐ Joseph Epstein
Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.
‐‐ Rupert Sheldrake
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
‐‐ Preston Sturges
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
‐‐ John Millington Synge
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
‐‐ Philippe Halsman
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee
Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
‐‐ Jean M. Auel
Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.
‐‐ Caroline Lawrence
Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.
‐‐ Robert Dale Owen
Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
‐‐ Max Muller
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
‐‐ Josiah Royce
Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.
‐‐ James Lind
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
‐‐ Buddha
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.
‐‐ Peter Singer
Of two evils, choose neither.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon
Of two evils choose the prettier.
‐‐ Carolyn Wells
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
‐‐ John Stuart Mill
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
‐‐ Lewis H. Lapham
Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice.
‐‐ Dominique Pire
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
‐‐ Jose Rizal
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
‐‐ Diogenes