Quotes By Famous Authors: [A]
I am an author! To read me is to know me.
In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has ...
In the end we have one choice: to suffer well or suffer badly, to reach for or to reject that quality which is termed, equally, ...
Retrospective epidemiological studies report that 20% of the general population qualifies for a current psychiatric diagnosis and 50% for a lifetime one.4 Prospective epidemiological studies ...
I'd like to teach you the names of these trees, to confess how much I need to miss you to finish this off.
Passion is the combination of lust and intellect. - (Giacomo Casanova)
What do you want? Love. Well, love gets what she wants one way or another.
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.
Anya looked back to see a massive man standing by the fire. He had dark skin and black hair that fell to his waist. He ...
I have just awoken, having dreamed of music. The final chord fades away within me while I try to focus on individuals amid the living, ...
If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way ...
Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book ...
I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong.
You are not a human being if you don't have a curiosity.
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to ...
What Applebee's was proposing was like Rick Bayless's endorsement of a line of chicken sandwiches for Burger King
A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.
I want to be the one he can't live without.
This is exciting," said J.Lo. "We are sneaky agent men, like Bond James Bond.""I don't know where you pick this stuff up.
Their strength was being strong enough to live no matter what happened to them. Instead of seeing their strengths, they saw what made them weak. ...
Think effectively Do efficiently. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Efficiency is doing the right thing in the right manner, the first time.
Kon's films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.
The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just ...
I cry as the laughter inside me drowns and descends into the water with the ghosts of our union.
-And I'm sorry too.-For what?-For calling you an asshole doctor.-That's okay.-Even though, technically, that is what you are.
You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.
Living your life is a long and doggy business ... And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you ...
People are not photographs. There's more to them than the style of their hair or the cut of their clothes. Think of yourself as an ...
We are never alone. (...) Guardian angels are always with us.
From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return.
If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?
Oh my God, what's happened?' asked Birdie, putting
Daisies are perennials; they always grow back.
I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my ...
I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.
The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to ...
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a ...
Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.
Everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know ...
Even the new things thatI less than know,I keep trying, did againuntil perfect.
They hugged, pressing each other's arms, and their brief embraces buoyed them up - forbearance and grace passing back and forth between them like a ...
Ronon Dex could drop Edward Cullen with a look.
All I know is that I can never see him enough. I can never kiss him enough. There isn't enough of him in the world. ...
Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me ...