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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?
Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.
Cam was already on his feet, waiting for me. I arched my brow at him. "Following me?" "Like a true serial killer," he replied.
Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
Truthfully, he lives right next to the Sexy Tree and I think that's the only thing that bothers me about this whole situation.
One more thing: don’t feel bad for not telling me that you loved me. You didn’t need to say it. I knew all along that you did.
I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.
Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine
You know, you sound like birds when you do that chuckle thing. It's nice. Over to the left, Vishous put his head in his hands.
I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.
I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).
a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.
In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.
Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.
When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.
I don't really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.
The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.