Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
'The News Quiz' is one of the things I am proudest of in my professional life.
When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.
We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring
Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.
She said people found running to something easier than running from something.
What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.
Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!
My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele)
I can tell you love him. (Syn) Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara)
Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!
Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)
My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.
He must feel that you choose to be with him, not that you need to be with him.
Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.
The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.
Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.