Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
You refuse to allow your life to be driven by the shifting winds of circumstance.
My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in ...
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
In a technological world facing many global problems, everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science. And knowing where we came from and helps ...
Bad beliefs make bad behavior.
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I ...
The psychology of silk underclothes has not yet been fully considered, mused Miss Pettigrew happily.
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter ...
This I have known, and these have come againWith echoing happiness in heart and brain;Time standing still, surrendering to meBeauty that otherwise would cease to ...
He was "authentic.
I whispered, under my breath, an atheist's prayer ... whatever the hell that is.
You English are like mad bulls ... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as ...
It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself ...
A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the ...
No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.
But to dwell prematurely on the sadness of one's death to others, Uncle Kostia, is like asking for money in advance. It's commercially unsound.
Well, how we going to sleep with that going on?" his wife demanded, not unreasonably. "Are they making love, or are they sore at each ...
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried ...
Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information
Not hardly." Reese lowered his pistol, letting the dread work through him in a tremble. "That wasjust a battle cry.
A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as real ...
In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.
Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.
I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.
There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.
The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself ...
It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the ...
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
No profit was too small to despise; no loss was too small to abhor.
With all the hatred in this world, in this good world, let us be kind to one another,
We didn't bother to search the woman's boat for supplies, as it was now speckled with tainted zombie blood, and any scavenged items we found ...
Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting ...
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll ...
2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.
If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and ...
I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.
According to this quote from Gandhi, one should look inward, and change the things that need to be changed before demanding upon others to do ...
They say that even of a good thing you can have too much. But I doubt it. True, such good things as sunbathing, beer, and ...
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot ...
It is always more pleasant to meet with one who is a bookman than with one who is not.
Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
Must be going crazy---my favorite poet latelyhas been me!