Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.
Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.
It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.
Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.
First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.
Cajun stomp?" "You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself.
Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that's creepy.
The sight of me puffing and straining apparently amused him to no end.
Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.
It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.
I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.
I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.
To lovers and dreamers and anyone who hasn’t truly experienced either.
Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.
Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.