Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.
I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.
I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'
I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.
Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.
I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.
I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.
Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.
but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.
Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.
You risked the cub? (Dev) He’s not just a cub. (Aimee) You’re right. He’s the passenger who fell off the short bus. (Dev)
I have some telekinesis, which you already discovered. Premonitions. Can see auras and…I make a killer omelet.” – Sundown
So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.
I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.