Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.
I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.
I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.
I have a lot of great fans. A lot of fans have cosplayed as Sweet Tooth, which I thought was really cool.
I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.
I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.
One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.
As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.