Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.
I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy.
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.
If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.
I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.
people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.
He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.
I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.
Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.
You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.
Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)
Princess,” he whispered against her ear. “My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.
Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.