Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.
We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.
Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.'
I am the one rich thing that morn Leaves for the ardent noon to win; Grasp me not, I have a thorn, But bend and take my being in.
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.
She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.
As part of the ritual of becoming a man, my maternal uncle, a judge, and his four sons, each older than me, took me deer hunting.
The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.
Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.
My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.
I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.
I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn't work for me.
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.