Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.
Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.
What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.
Love has the power to...cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.
Animals have hearts that feel, eyes that see and families to care for...just like you and me.
I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.
I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.
One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.
There's only one thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream, and that's a beautiful reality.
Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them?
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.
Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.
Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.
We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.
Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.
Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I´d say I´m ready for that." Nora :D (p.375)
I cared about us. But the cold hard truth was, nothing I said or did could realign the stars.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.