147852 Quotes

#1. Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

John Steinbeck

#2. If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.

Thomas Merton

#3. On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels ...

Charles Dickens

#4. If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Barbara Johnson

#5. I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

Anthony Storr

#6. What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

#7. Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Max Barry

#8. I am Psmith. I sub-edit.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

Benjamin Bratt

#10. I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

Michael Shannon

#11. A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

Henry A. Kissinger

#12. But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

Emily Giffin

#13. I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

Juliet Mills