Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
Cannot admit that darkness exists because humanity itself exists, and that to erase one, you erase the other.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.
Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.
I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.
Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier." - Jean-Claude
I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.
The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
You look like a puppy. Like I'm jingling my keys and you're jumping by the door waiting for your walk" "Woof.
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations.
there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.