Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.
Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.
Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.
If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale)
...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.
Prices don't merely reflect what people think things ought to cost today; they also reflect what people expect items to cost tomorrow.
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.