Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.
I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.
You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.
After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.
You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.
I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.
Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.
What about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
I'll kill for you, give up everything i own for you...but i won't give you up.
There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man.
My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.
I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.
To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.
You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.
The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.
Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
When credit is cheaper to use and easier to arrange, people do use more of it.
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.