This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action—I will write it out.

—Hortense Calisher

About Hortense Calisher

Hortense Calisher (December 20, 1911 – January 13, 2009) was an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

More quotations from Hortense Calisher

One must give back the stare of the universe. Anybody can.

—Hortense Calisher

wonder universe

More quotations tagged with “ideas”

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me—shapes and ideas so near to me—so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

An idea is salvation by imagination.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

—Emile Chartier

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.