Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.
Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.
The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".
i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important.
When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.
I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.
We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
We're staying for the moment. ut if you do anything i find the least bit suspicious, I'll kill you. Fair Warning?
Dhamra Port is a model of modern maritime trade in Odisha and a successful example of public-private partnership.
We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.
In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.
Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.
Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass!
Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.
I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.