Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.
I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
'Nowhere Man' embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. It's really near and dear to my heart.
...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive
I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.
It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?
All right, everyone. Fess up. Who just shat in their pants? C’mon. Admit it. I know I did and I’m wolf enough to own it.” – Sasha
So long as you’re not a snap, you’re safe. (Nykyrian) Snap…Syn used that term. (Kiara) Single. Naïve. Amateur. Person. (Nykyrian)
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?
"Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted. "No." I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full - of butterflies.
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.