Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.
Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.
Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.
Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty.
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.
There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!
Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.
You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.
If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.
I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.
You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.