Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).
I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.
You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.
I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.
None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.
If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.
I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.
A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].
Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.