Van Wyck Quotes
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Van Wyck Quotes & Sayings
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Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
— Van Wyck Brooks
We are one evolutionary advancement away from world peace. All we need is the loss of jealousy, which is also the source of greed
— Johnny Moscato
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.
— Vincent De Paul
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.
— Reid Hoffman
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.
— Howard Chandler Christy
What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.
— David Sarnoff
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
— Van Wyck Brooks
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation
— Nabil Basma
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
— Van Wyck Brooks
The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
— Jerry Della Femina
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
— Van Wyck Brooks
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible.
— Van Wyck Brooks
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
— Gene Tunney
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Health can be squandered, but not stored up.
— Mason Cooley
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
— Rachel Carson
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Come on, Elmer," he said to his horse. "Let's find a nice prickly cactus you can toss me into.
— Abigail Roux
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
— Van Wyck Brooks
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
— Van Wyck Brooks
