Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
Hortense Calisher
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Hortense Calisher
Age: 97 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 20
Died: 2009
Died: January 13
Author
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Jack Fenno
Sounds
Wind
Sound
Like
Bumble
Syllable
Syllables
Bees
Breaking
More quotes by Hortense Calisher
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
Hortense Calisher
Speech isn't for agony.
Hortense Calisher
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Hortense Calisher
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
Hortense Calisher
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
Hortense Calisher
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
Hortense Calisher
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
Hortense Calisher
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Hortense Calisher
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
Hortense Calisher
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.
Hortense Calisher
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
Hortense Calisher
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
Hortense Calisher
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
Hortense Calisher
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
Hortense Calisher
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
Hortense Calisher
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
Hortense Calisher
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
Hortense Calisher
