Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.
All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.
Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.
Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .
Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.
Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.
Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.
I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.