Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.
I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.
A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.
It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.
Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE!
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.
I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.
So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.
Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old.' I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.
Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise!
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.
The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.
I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.
As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Make a list of 200 prestigious, influential, and powerful people with whom you want to work, play, grow and do business.