Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you
The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.
Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.
I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.
We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.
Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous.
There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum
My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.
Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.
You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.