Quotes By Famous Authors: [M]
Selfish men were ... trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
Don't trees swallow the fire of the sun? When wood burns, is it not surrendering all those photons of energy that the tree's leaves once ...
What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the ...
The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what ...
To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.
A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with ...
And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.
The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead ...
People should just be allowed to look in the mirror and see all kinds of possibilities.
Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory?
Style," the well-known historian Peter Gay once wrote, "is not the dress of thought but part of its essence.
Neutral state of mind has got me arriving on time, being far enough not to hide, leave the moment behind and fly, fly my child ...
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.
I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled.
We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from ...
Those dudes are hot," announced Tamara. Both Lor and Patrick shut up and turned to stare at her. Damian looked up and grinned wolfishly. My ...
I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.
The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical ...
The ONE thing that is most certain in life is CHANGE ;)
You can only feel love to the extent in which you love yourself. If you deficiently love yourself, you will never believe that another person ...
Furrowed, and she leaned forward as though she'd seen him in the darkness. Jerking back behind the plant, he decided it wouldn't be good to ...
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
I liked me and I had been well drilled in good manners by Aunt Penny, who had often told me the best manners meant being ...
People quoting others have nothing of their own to offer.
Yo mama is so fat that she left the house in high heels and came back wearing flip flops.
I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't ...
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many ...
Long ago, Margaret Mead, the world-famous anthropologist, noted that we should "never underestimate the power of a small group with dedication to change the world; ...
So, given what we learn about the word "faithful" in the Scriptures, if we are to be faithful parents we will be steadfast, trustworthy, and ...
Problem is, life is not karaoke booth
Happiness is having a cat for "fuzz therapy". Preferably one with trimmed claws.
By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.
Wing watched her leave and turned to Otto. 'My father once told me that only the foolish man pulls on the tiger's tail as it ...
How was she to endure knowing he was in town these next two weeks, without throwing herself into his arms again? She would hide in ...
When the query was finished getting results, we ended
Make your siren's call and sing all you want. I will not hear what you have to say.
Jewish tradition holds that, given a choice between life and death, one should always choose life.
Or complementary stones, are arranged nearby.
Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. At the edge of perception, weird things dance and howl.
When their kiss sealed their vows, April's heart swell, and she thought it couldn't hold all the love she felt at this moment.
Would you change who you were to be with the one person you were meant to love?
Junior told me once that he was very impressed by Jimi Hendrix, by the way he was very wild, and yet he was very controlled. ...
I like being weird. Weird's all I've got. That and my sweet style.
Self-empowerment is our birthright.
He finally found his way back to the trailer before
Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist.
Fetch me more sharks that I might jump them!
Light bright shining