Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!
Because he should want to be in a relationship with me! I’m friggin’ awesome.
You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.
Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse.
Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You're beginning to freak me out.
Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you're covered with honey.
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.
When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.
Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'
The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.
You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.
You have to be able to interact with people whose politics you disagree with.