Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.
What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!
As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin!
In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!
Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!
No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!
The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!
To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!
When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!
We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!
There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.
He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.
All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
One of my feet is a whole size longer than the other. One is size ten, the other is size eleven.
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.