Quotes By Famous Authors: [M]
Sometimes betting a long shot's the only way to win big.
Choose between dying of hunger or a bullet to the head. This means you either suffer without food or get killed
He looks panicked for a moment. "You're not going to break my heart, are you?" I whisper, "Please don't make me.
Reality' would not only be boring without spirit; it would have no meaning whatsoever. No horror film can begin to capture the horror of such ...
I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll ...
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.
To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they ...
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
You might be a wallflower," he agreed, "but there's more to you, isn't there?""Why would you say that?""In my experience, the quietest women tend to ...
The Universe had no obligation to create anything at all, yet life managed to make a grand entrance on at least one tiny pale blue ...
I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.
The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.
Life ain't all blow jobs and ice cream. Sometimes it's a shit sandwich and a kick in the nuts.
Elvis, heal me, save me. Elvis, make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light.
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the ...
The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification ... we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which ...
Treat all people-even the most unsightly beetles-as though they were angels sent from heaven.
Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. ...
To all the people affected in some way by Cancer...I say stay strong; know you are not alone; and always choose...live.
I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of ...
In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring ...
Understanding myself should not be confused with changing myself
I don't have a very good diet.
You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.
No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer
It's always fun to play dress up.
When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the 'Why's" and the 'Who's' of life, the 'How's' and 'What's' of life start to come into ...
Perhaps I run in straight circles
However, even the healthiest human heart skips a beat now and then, and so does music.
Man is not a man, until he stands for somthing good
These are the best things I've ever had in my mouth!
My goal in life is to inspire people, transform hearts, and bring joy. I long for people to feel accepted, valued, and loved just as ...
Along with food, Roosevelt considered the finer points of bullets, colored glasses, Zeiss lenses, iron pans, enameled tableware, cameras, and "flashlights."32 When considering
Rain was falling, quiet rain, penetrating, like thick fog. You know, the terrible rain that rubs out the hours, that lies outside of time, in ...
You're getting ahead of yourself, Danika!" she said bracingly. "One thing at a time. Those home things can be wrong! Don't panic until it's time ...
The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism and targeted inequality ...
Have you hugged your favorite Dork lately? Most of us are squeezably soft and adorable.
The closed doorway to Mr. Langley's homeroom, once so intimidating, has no effect on me now. I shove it open and storm inside, tardy and ...
Thank you, Danielle." "For what?" I asked; through the blur my tears created. "For being the first woman to ever break my heart. You have ...
It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.
Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening.
I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.
They hurt me, these small, brutal kindnesses.
My dreams and I spin tighterthe longer we practice our intricate steps
The Nazis understand everything except humour.
Great things await you. You have a lifetime of amazing dreams to fulfil and noble ambitions to achieve
In intellect there is no sex.
Never give up on horses, they are the only humans that don't speak.