Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood
A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.
Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
There's something about being a woman and being able to dress up in men's clothing, so to speak.
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.
If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.
A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.