Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.
You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?
I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!
I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.
my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)
Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.