Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.
It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.
as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.
People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.
There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.
Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.
'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.