Quotes By Famous Authors: [P]
Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.
Until death do YOUR part.
There's something impoverished in those who want to really have everything.
The status of philosophy is such that it is not the case that you cannot be wrong in philosophy but that it is very difficult ...
There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.
Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?
EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care ... CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the right thing ...
People say the space you live in is a reflection of your inner self.
A flash of silver just below the surface.
MEANEY: Do you ever miss having that being-out-in-the-world job environment? ELLIS: God, no. Have you ever been out in the world? It's full of fucking ...
If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.
Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor ...
I hate when people say 'I see'. It doesn't mean anything and I think it's hostile. Whenever anyone tells me 'I see' I think they're ...
In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She is blamed by ...
I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.
Moving across levels of the particular and the abstract, trying to avoid a transcendent purchase on the objects of study, we set ourselves up for ...
In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a ...
Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving one
What's not to like about you? Sure, you have more sarcasm per square inch than any other mammal.
Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.
[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is ...
One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an ...
Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.
I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.
For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of global ...
Tea, chocolate,Scotties and a good book. Perfect!
Never allow the dark shadows of your past to dim the light you were destined to shine.
To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.
Religions have faded, religions have been displaced by violence, religions have fractured; but ceremony and reverence live on. Ceremony is older than any surviving religion, ...
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of ...
Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something ...
The biggest problem facing a monkey today is: trees. There's bloody great huge trees everywhere; getting in the way.(Leaps And Bounds)
Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.
Football is the poetry of a motion.
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
From they sack and they belly opened And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth They feed they Lion and he comes.
Regarding his friend's insight after losing her spouse to cancer: "She told me she had plenty of people to do things with but nobody to ...
An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where ...
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.
Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.[Arthur]
I don't know if you've ever knit a sweater, but by the end of it, you're like, 'Ugh I can't wear this. I can't stand ...
... because nobody wants to see a small creature left to suffer or left by itself out in the bushes.
Only a genius can overlook the chaos
Everythings so blurryAnd everyones so fakeAnd everybodys so emptyAnd everything is so messed upPre-occupied without youI cannot live at allMy whole world surrounds youI stumble ...
Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.
There is no happy medium to our food; it is either overcooked or undercooked, or it has too much salt or not enough, or there ...
Have remained true to my deepest convictions, I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, ...
All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.