Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.
Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn
There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.