Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.
If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Ye have no need to fight, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord.
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.
You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.
It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'
May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.
That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not.
All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.