Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
A critter reveals his true self at midnight.
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.
Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.
The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing
What chance of survival does a culture havewhen its own elites actively seek its destruction?
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accord ...
It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of ...
I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
Orangutans look straight into your soul.
A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you ...
Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.
I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.
Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you ...
The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.
You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going ...
Hawthorne ends the story this way: 'He failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find ...
Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological ...
People don't choose or own cats. Cats choose the people they want to own.
It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
So very lovely His blood on her swollen lips His first vampireSo very lovely He would have to remember Each salacious cutHe took her slowly ...
First of all, the Captain rates the honorific 'sir.' You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass.
People are always afraid to think. And alas, Ethan, integrity is always a prisoner of vanity, and common sense is easily eclipsed by greed.
Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there
Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wallAre blooming alone in the cold;If not for the subtle fragrance drifting overWho could tell this from ...
Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the ...
Alex moved away, clearly crestfallen. Some other day, maybe as soon as tomorrow, she would feel regret, but not tonight. Right now, she couldn't summon ...
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results ...
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.
I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it ...
Don't do anything you are going to resent. It's not worth it.
He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.
Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.
Every bullet has its billet.
Commitment is freedom.
People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and ...
The Cistercians do not eat meat ... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not ...
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up with you.Thank God.
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is ...
Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or ...
Being mindful means being aware of everything and certain of nothing".
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and ...
I have had days stare back at me as if to say, let's see who will darken first.
How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand who have read ...