Quotes By Famous Authors: [R]
My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.
You don't know until you know!
The world around me was oblivious, but for once, I felt absolute
If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.
Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.
The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.
He didn't have enough imagination to be a mathematician, but now he's a poet and he's doing fine.
There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you ...
And the whole online thing is like, I just, that to me is a world that doesn't exist. It's not something you could touch or ...
The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.
I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, ...
The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.
When it comes to matters of the heart, rules don't matter.
If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
Success is the consequence of first having dreams and then acting upon them.
Those who don't look for magic, will never find it.
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity ...
Will I see you again?"I turned to him and I shrugged. "If what we feel is real, then yes I have no doubt we will.
If we cannot abate the disaster, the one honor we have is the probity of our lucidness.
Heinrich shrugged as he usually did, with only his mouth.
You should see me, dressed to kill. I wear a pair of hacked-off jeans and a too-big T-shirt that I can roll up onto my ...
What you feel is infatuation. It's an illness, an obsession. It's anything but love.
Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow.
The mind is brought into harmony with the spirit and includes the body, achieving an organic, harmonious unity of all aspects of the person's being, ...
Evolution is surely most deterministic for those still unaware of it
We need to focus not only on what we provide to the customer, but on how we provide it.
If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.
When trying to exclude brain hemorrhage, remember that blood is hyperattenuated (bright) and usually measures 35-45 Housfield units (HU). This has the opposite appearance to ...
If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the ...
In python the first argument of every function in a class always refers to its current instance.'self' is the new object that is created and ...
My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.
The roads we walk throughout our lives, are but fine threads in the tapestry of the universe.
Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no ...
The little things become big things over time, but it takes an intelligent consistency to hang in there long enough to reap the fruits of ...
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and ...
When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, hi religion, we had better make certain to replace it with ...
An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.
Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to ...
Loneliness is just space expanding around you. Trust uncertainty. Sadness is life holding you in its hands and changing you. Make solitude your home.
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.
I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.
Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?
You are someone else's proof that God exists."-from The Secret of Mago Castle, available October 2014
You have to take a little time to appreciate being alive and breathing instead of wondering what you have to do next all the time. ...
Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor.
To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.
Didn't lie give you