Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.
Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance
The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.
Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside.
I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!
Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.
Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl
I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore.
If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.
How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered
Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?
Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.