Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
No, he just needs a moment," Curran said. "Young bouda males. Easily excitable.
It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.
We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure.
If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.
Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!
Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter . . . what an honor.
Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?
I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.
I don't do farm animals. Can't stand hay in your leathers? Or wool in my teeth.
Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.
I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.
Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.
I sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive.
Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?
The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.
Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen
Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.