Quotes By Famous Authors: [F]
The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
I don't walk on water unless its frozen.
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for ...
Write to one person, not a million.
Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is ...
I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my ...
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything ...
Be all this as it may, men should not have to depend upon physical strength for distinction, otherwise animals would have the advantage over them, ...
Maybe I'm not the best for you. But I'll try my best just for you ...
Pain is like love; indescribable
I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears ... to my constant ...
But she was out of earshot, already moving on down the street amongst the other passers-by.
Anne had many friends and male admirers by the time she was twelve.
When after many battles past,Both tir'd with blows,make peace at last,What is it, after all, the people get?Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.
Some people ask nowadays what kind of a religion it is that chooses an instrument of torture for its symbol, as if the cross on ...
I'm one of those people that I make a song ... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so ...
What Elzy had learned in the war was this: Sometimes your life depended upon having to do an awful thing, and the only way to ...
Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.
Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of ...
There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR ...
In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the ...
I'd rather spend every day of my life in hell with you than a single day in heaven with you nowhere to be found.
Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?''Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went ...
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, ...
The blood of Jesus covers all sin.
Love discovered me all weaponless,and opened the way to the heart through the eyes,which are made the passageways and doors of tears:so that it seems ...
A library is never -- for lovers of the written word -- simply a place for conserving or storing books but rather a sort of ...
For every dream was worth the risk
Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216
I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.
When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them ...
I don't believe in courtship, it's a waste of time. If I love the person, I'll tell her right away. But for you, I'll make ...
The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half ...
Make the big time where you are!
Alpha sets the scale of nature the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of ...
We find that most of our problems are of our own making. From Moonshiner's Revenge
Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live ...
Be helpful after you think, be smart before you create your own personality and be thoughtful after making friends.
In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we ...
We where not put on this earth to be ordinary, we where created to be extraordinary.
Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.
Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin ... it's hard and its mean, but you just can't stop.
Ebrahim made him understand that, no matter what, he could not advance beyond the white line, for that would be in defiance of God's laws.
We're all looking for a peaceful and safe place, but maybe there is no such place. But we keep going no matter what's waiting for ...
Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.