Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the grin ...
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because ...
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)
Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.
Did you know that there is a condition that appears before any sort of pain, diseases and disorder? It is simpler than you can imagine ...
Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique ...
You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, ...
I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting ...
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, ...
Adventure must start with running away from home.
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found ...
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics ...
I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to ...
Stop fearing of someone leaving you, start leaving your fears
My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together ...
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
A quarter-moon smeared a feverish glow on the marble slabs and dappled the trodden weeds that beleaguered them with a pale dewy leprosy; only the ...
Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem ...
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
I supposed I've always thought if you really wanted something you shouldn't ask for it.
There are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean.
Pray when you feel like it, pray when you don't feel like it, pray until you do feel like it!
Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts these three modes ...
But the point is, the talking heads are wrong. The loss won't bring back a simpler time. Only a search for something new to fill ...
The value of content seems to get higher as the number of distribution pipes increases. The more distribution companies that want to be the top ...
The present is the only thing we can control and is the only thing we can change.
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when ...
Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.
Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows.
Book values have some good and some bad features.
Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.
I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of ...
One's true religion is what one cares about most.
Learning to hear when there is no crisis is good practice for when we are under fire and need urgent help.
There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.
Armageddon (the final battle between good and evil; the word is taken from a plain near the Israeli city of Megiddo where the showdown is ...
No. No coveting the dragon. Dragons are bad. We
You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume ...
Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.
I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons ...
For a long time he watched her. When she was lost to sight, he was almost a little moved. But that's life, thought death.
He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
What hurts the soul My soul adores
You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes ...
The hound was a problem. Protective of her mistress, aye, but also seemingly determined to throw them together. Gavan shook his head. Now, there was ...