Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.
All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.
When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?
Its's just that... this is the realest thing I've had in a long time and it scares me a bit.
I look into his eyes, no longer afraid what's in them, but afriad I'll lose what they carry.
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.
Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.
What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.
If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.
I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.