Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.
Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself.
Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.
When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.
True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
I'm a very nervy kind of person, who finds it almost impossible to relax.
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter
I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs
I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
I love you Mark..." Courtney, PoR. I love you too Courtney..." Mark, PoR.
I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.
Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.
If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.
there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.