Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.
I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.
I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society.
If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.
Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?
thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.
All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.
Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.
People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.
When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.
[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.
A lot of people die in my movies. So if you're in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!
The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week." Carl Costanza - Hot Six
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.
She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.