Quotes By Famous Authors: [R]
People who crack wise tend to cause just as much laughter as abject anger.
You do not want to make this guy mad. You see him sitting there all cool and calm, but underneath, he's thinking, he's plotting. I'm ...
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a ...
...nothing is settled...everything matters.
A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.
I am not a cat lover. I am a dog lover - but I'm only a lover of hypoallergenic dogs.
So I am your distraction?""You," He said,his face coming within inches of mine, " Are my only hope.
It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size ...
To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, ...
Travelers should only read after dark.
Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.
I've almost never seen in China what Westerners would consider a fair fight. Somebody always pulls out a meat cleaver or picks up a brick ...
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.
The Sun rules our inner personalities - who we are to those who know us best.
I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's ...
What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except ...
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise ...
The secret of gettingsuccessful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell - inthe clearness of the instructions they receive.
Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet.
Mistake is a single page in a part of Life ... but Relation is a book of dictionary So don't lose a full Book for ...
It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch. The air was misty, and ...
Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain ...
I know you never met me, and I know you don't know my name, but I am from you, and I just wish you could ...
I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he ...
History is the enemy of memory.
There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.
...I have big dreams, too. I used to think that made me different and strange. But when I came here and found all these books, ...
Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.
Long story short, that person is a complainer, not a customer.
Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?
If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.
I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations.
Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.
We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.
Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time ...
If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left ...
Then came the Boris Vallejo virtual reality mindfucks.
Suicide is an attack on societyan attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.
A Vessel out at Sea is like a Woman, with out a Navigator it has no sense of Direction. A Navigator with out a Vessel ...
Successful creators engage in an ongoing dialogue with their work. They put what's in their head on paper long before it's fully formed, and they ...
I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.
Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-punks, who prefer graphic, unrelenting, violent, fast-paced horror. I ...
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels ...