Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.
If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!
Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.
Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.
Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves.
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.
I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.
Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.
Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.
One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.
I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
You ever get any death threats? How about ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends? You run over anyone recently?” ~ Morelli
It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.
Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.