Famous Quotes / Cynthia Ozick
15 Quotations by Cynthia Ozick
- 1. After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our f ...
- 2. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctification. Religion in all its forms ...
- 3. I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This ...
- 4. In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
- 5. It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
- 6. It is true that money attracts, but much money repels.
- 7. Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
- 8. One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one want ...
- 9. Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
- 10. The engineering is secondary to the vision.
- 11. The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to ...
- 12. To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
- 13. What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally ...
- 14. When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on t ...
- 15. Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole e ...