Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)
I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.
I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.
... laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
Without Wonder Woman, there would be no Black Canary; without a Superman, there would be no Flash. They all come from that.
I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.
When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.
I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake news.
I think Ivanka Trump she has this power and powerful women are reaching out to her and she needs to take advantage of that.
There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.
I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.
CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy
I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you.
You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.
When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe.
What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.