Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
Though Journeys Be Common, Our Paths Remain A Silent Possesion.
Peccadillo. So far as my observation goes, men
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
Poets make the best topographers.
I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, ...
If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.
Devotion needs distance,
Growing up elite means learning to value yourself in terms of the measures of success that mark your progress into and through the elite:
You will be so happy you didn't get pregnant. Because this child will fill your life so full of love that you will thank God ...
The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.
Machines, not men. They will start after
For most people, passion comes after they try something, discover they like it, and develop mastery - not before. To put it more succinctly: passion ...
Weird is the new normal
A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed ...
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
I'm more afraid of life than death
Scouting is a Game with a Purpose
I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.
I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.
They can beat you down, not keep you down.
Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.
I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat ...
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
To write for one's bread and to write for mere pastime are very different matters.
It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it
What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept ...
Boron - boro
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark ...
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom ...
In the same way, God sometimes turns off the other sources of our pleasure so that we might learn to find all of our delight ...
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made ...
Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.
Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements,
In this modern day and age America's newest slogan is: Mom, apple pie and high-speed Internet. They say you can live two weeks without food, ...
To count a few gulls makes the journey happy.In the reedy bend, under the willow bank,My wife and children smile with me.The moment I fall ...
There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.
It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and ...
In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, ...
Sometimes people will see what I write and ask if I "need to talk"I'm not crying out for helpI'm burying the body.
Life has a way of turning us into people we never knew we wanted to be.
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.
Your life is your choice, so make it worthwhile
You are worth every heartache I've endured, every sleepless night, every red-rimmed eye. I am fragmented with you and without. I cannot decipher much of ...