Home / Quotes / Quote by Joe Queenan

Quote by Joe Queenan

“Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.”

Author

Joe Queenan is a journalist known for his wit and sharp commentary on popular culture. Born on November 3, 1950, he has made a name for himself with his distinctive voice and insightful analysis of the media landscape. more

“How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.”

World Feels Looks Feelings Body Past Pleasure Support Pieces Blood Arms Skins Clouds Legs Bones Endless Frail Arms And Legs Skin And Bones

Book:Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

“So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.”

Ifs World Firsts Persons Happens Eye Earth Night Stars Felt Bits Growing Happened Faster Divided New Things Expansion Dividing Smallness Branching Out

Book:Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

“Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.”

Reality Past Events Function Future Events

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.”

Persons Doe Different Eye School Form Flower Gold Excellence Various Attractive Iron Diamond Fragrance Sparkle

Book:The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes

Source: The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes

“Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.”

Stills Existence Known Fundamentals Mood Suspects Inconsequential Perplexity

Book:Wittgenstein's mistress

Source: Wittgenstein's mistress

“The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.”

Light Black Space Numbers Sea Color Quiet Despair Rain Traditional Despite Realms Thoughtful Melancholy Funeral Handkerchiefs Flailing

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.”

Rain Increase Graves Umbrella Mushrooms Sprouts

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.”

Firsts Hours White Quiet Winter Snow Sensations First Snow

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.”

War America Plans Streets Unions Sunday Soviet Soviet Union Dimitri Tatiana Metanova

Author:Paullina Simons

Quote by Joe Queenan

Author

You May Also Like