Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.
I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts.
When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.
Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it
Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.
Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind
[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.
Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.
If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.