Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.
I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.
I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.
Magic is our birthright...and should be available to all who wish to utilize it as a tool of personal transformation.
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.
Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.
So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)
I’m getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)
Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour.
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.
We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.
There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head.
Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!
Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.
I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.