Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
Everyone who has had success in his or her field of endeavor has had a mentor along the way.
I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.
I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.
The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.
He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.
The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.
So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!
None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.
I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.