Quotes By Famous Authors: [F]
In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. ...
The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
Rosie, maybe I'm a masochist, but I think the world of you. You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen and you've got no idea. ...
You look marvelous!
Is there any way to avoid the emptiness of people's absence?
Journey, "Open arms".
(Photo by Edwin Bonde, June 24, 1945, courtesy Alan Bonde)
So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple topsAnd they couldn't grow up any higher;So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot,For ...
Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate ...
Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of ...
Facts from politicians are like Muligans from the devil - useless.
Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution?
We're the front line," Danny had told Wade. "On September eleventh, 2001, they didn't call the navy. They didn't call the Marine Corps. They called ...
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being
When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.
Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.
If you need a relationship to complete you, get a dog.
Get in, get it done, get it done right, and get out.
If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast ...
Alternatively, the person may be reacting normally to an intolerable situation, but misguided professionals incorrectly focus on changing the individual rather than modifying the person's ...
The essence of modern capitalism is not slavery of the antique pattern but the possession of the expensive tools of production by a small plutocratic ...
Most firearm-related deaths in America are suicides.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
He was a living example of the truth that a man may be large-minded and yet strong; that he may hate error, yet love the ...
7:23 You are not for sale (to the law of works). The ransom God paid for your freedom now binds you to the lordship of ...
To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, ...
I try to make the best of what I have as life is short
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not ...
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.
We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not ...
I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is ...
Peepo Choo is avant-garde! ... It is both comedy and drama! It is both the wildest fiction and the most sobering reality! It's about love ...
I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer.
Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this is ...
In the eyes of other Anglo-Indians, he slid from grace when he married a Eurasian girl, who gave him four sons, one of whom died ...
One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life ...
I am constantly amazed by how little difference there is between religions.' Selene sighed. 'It seems the arguments are always over the details. Mary or ...
His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with ...
When you run out of places to look for strength, search deeper inside.
Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to ...
But ... is sex the only way to know your preference? I thought it's more about who you fall in love with?
Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.
Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.
I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.
I wasn't meant for reality, but life came and found me.
Aloneness is an opportunity, a state brimming with potentiality, with resources for renewed life ... In the space of aloneness ... a woman is free ...
To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.
He whom nature thus bereaves,Is ever fancy's favourite child;For thee enchanted dreams she weavesOf changeful beauty, bright and wild.