Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.
He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?
As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.
Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.
When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.
Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.
Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.
My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.
The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.
We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.