Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.
Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.
Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...
I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.
flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.