black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Related Topics

Detail Dis Mind never Quit Reves She Throughness Understand Work

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Better Country Intellectual Know Other
People read fiction for emotion-not information
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Emotion Fiction Information People Read
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Barbarian Century Class Middle Prisoner Twentieth
I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Country Like Love
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cathedral Little One Seem Something Spent Time
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Amn Another Been Civilized Completely Ever Known never Nobody Possible Thousand Year
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Beebm Accomplish Convenience Critical Everything Free Important Preservation Social Spirit System While World Worth
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dictate Just No Pen Secret Toe Type Use Work Write Writeing
With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Experience Gone Great Heart Honest Income Maybe Money Perhaps Propaganda Tax Union
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Basketball Bbbit Call Clan Custom Game Gave Homicidal Instinct Outlet Patriotism Side
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cost Fact Humidity Initial Prohibition Thing Whole
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Conscious Die Drudging Life More Perhaps Sleep Think Tired
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Class Earn Fix Spend
I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Believe Brought Christianity Compromise Creator God Merciless Public Scare Servant Truth Whole
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Democracy Dignity Ever Exception Give Ordinary Scandalous Whole Worker
It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Board Country High Make Mind Mountain Myth Necessary One Our Favorite Plain Purpose
In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Ago Art Decline Election Institute Letter National Price Protest Some Year
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Art Attic Booze Burn Businessmen Country Feeding Indistinguishable Left Literature Live Other Shabby Spaghetti Successful
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Anything Buy Customer One People
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Occupation Season Winter
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Can Cloud Dark Enough Hing Life Lighten Love One Really Say Sure
But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Barbarism Capable Forever Men Ritual Science Shut Silence
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Much Nothing Revolution Wait

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes