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The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.
I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.
I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she?
An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.
Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.
I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.' We'll walk.
Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.
How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.
I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.
Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.
Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.
There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays.
Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.
Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly.
Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead
So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.
His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.
... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.