Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture.
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.
The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.
Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli
What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.
A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.
Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.
Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
Beyonce, Otis Redding, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Adele are a few of my favorites.
There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.
I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.
It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.
I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.
Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.
People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.
What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.