Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!
Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!
The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!
Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!
If you are in a deep dark well with no rope to climb, hold on to the hope, because it is also a strong rope!
Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!
Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!
On the way to truth, walk with the crowds or walk all alone; but walk always and walk under every condition!
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected!
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!
We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!
What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!
When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!
Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!
What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.
You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.
I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.
Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.
I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.
I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.
I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.
There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.