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Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.
To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.
No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.
I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.
A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.
We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.
If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.