Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic.
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.
You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.
Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.
The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.
The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.
I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.
Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.
It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does
Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?
When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect
I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.
I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.
Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.
Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.