Famous quotes containing the words louis, austin, professional and/or life:
“The friendly cow, all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple tart.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.”
—Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921)
“Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“He did not live, he observed life from a window, and too often was inclined to content himself with no more than what his friends told him they saw when they looked out of a window.... In the end the point of Henry James is neither his artistry nor his seriousness, but his personality, and this was curious and charming and a trifle absurd.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)