Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Don't imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.
Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.
I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.
Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.
I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.
For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.
There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.
She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.
Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.
The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.
Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.
Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.
I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long." -Nudge
When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.
I wouldn’t trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.”-max
Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.
The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.
I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.
I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.
The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.
What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better.
No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.