Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.
I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.
Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.
Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world
Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.
Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.
Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person
I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.
All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.
Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.
Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.
Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)
Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak
I'll be needing a bridesmaid',she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine.
Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.
I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.
I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.
Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.
I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi
If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.
America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.