Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.
The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.
Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. "Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.
To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.
Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?
I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.
I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.
The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.
I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau
Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.
The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.
Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart.
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.
Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.
I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.
I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.
Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?
... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.