Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.
We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.
I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.
Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?
You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.
He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to.
And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.
How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.
People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.
Sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.
But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.
There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove
As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin
You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.
Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.
Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.
It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.
I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.