Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.
The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.
I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working.
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
I know I’m doing something wrong and I feel guilty but neither of those things matter enough to make me stop
I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.
All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.
Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.
That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.