Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest
I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.
I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger
Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger
I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.
To say that I loved school would be an understatement. It was my oasis, my sanctuary.
Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.
The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.
I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.
Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.
Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.