Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.
Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.
As a writer, my job is to think of evil ways to destroy the world and save it. What could be more fun?
Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children
The Boy should watch where he’s going,” she said. “Rachel should not manifest in doorways,” I replied.
I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.
I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.
People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.
Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.
One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.
An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.
Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?
Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.
The best thing about Valentine's Day is that if you don't have a lover, you badly remember to get one!
There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!
If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!