Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.
Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.
Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts
When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.
I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing
Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?
We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.
I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!
Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.