Quotes By Famous Authors: [A]
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
Every so often, a lightning flash would reveal us to each other, and the expression on his face - so rapt, so helpless, so utterly ...
If God won't play by the rules, then I don't have to, either.
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
Time is the number of change with respect to before and after.
In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in ...
Trotsky's view that the gap between aspiration and achievement will be a permanent feature of human life, so that tragedy will be permanently relevant to ...
All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable
Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
No relationship is perfect and no human being is perfect.
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and ...
Go to hell, I'm reading!
Live cleanly, rightly, beautifully. Take walks and read books, laugh and save money...
Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.
Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of ...
Oh my God, I'm not letting you out of this bed until you are thoroughly debouched. Incest has never looked so fucking good before.
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, ...
It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.
I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.
Exploration is the sport of the scientist
Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
What I mean is that you should never initiate an aggressive act, but if one is initiated against you or another innocent person, you should ...
Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them.
Thing to know about the Reaches....It's always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues
It is important to be nice but its more nice to be Important
To say ; " I want to travel in time", just like saying;"I want to travel in dial
Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.
For what is better than love? Imagine a world without the sun, a world without the smile of a baby or the flight of a ...
I crawled in a spirit-haunted placeMade wild by souls that moan and mourn;And Death leered by with mangled face -Ah God! I prayed, I prayed ...
Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw ...
For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction, the ...
But my parents were there when I needed them, always there. The idea that I would someday have to walk the earth without their anchor ...
I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
Bull markets are immense fun, until they cease to be immense fun.
We get the government we deserve
Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible
It's exactly when you're down on the ground that people want to kick you.
[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As ...
Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by ...
I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of ...
If it doesn't seem unpleasant, then it's not discipline. If it doesn't seem painful, then it's not discipline.
I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.
Mm ... hmm. I bet he's helping you. Right into his bed and you'd be a fool not to test him out. Shit. From what ...
I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial ...
We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable.
The story of the Bible is not the story of the covenant of grace; nor is it the story of Israel. The Bible is the ...
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please