Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.
The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.
Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.
Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.
I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.
Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
Cesaro is a guy who does a lot of unique stuff and is a great talent. He does a lot of strong-man stuff that is just impressive to watch.
I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.
Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.
You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.