Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.
Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.
We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.
Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.
I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.
I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.
I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.
And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.
a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.
I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.
Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.
If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.
Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.
All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.
Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.
In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.