Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)
What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?
I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.
I hope Seth Rollins becomes the safest, best wrestler in the world. And I wish him all the luck in the world.
If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.
Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!
It's important to be able to be a girl and be a scientist and have neither of those things affect each other.
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
out of great Russia came three dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die for: Bread, Peace, Land.
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)