Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore.
George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly.
Well, I’m glad you didn’t drown.” His eyes warm up with his face. I smile back at him. “Yeah, that would’ve sucked.” “Definitely.
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.