Mostrando Quotes

#1. The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Jose Saramago

#2. Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Lord Byron

#3. It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

Winston Graham

#4. Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank,

Philip K. Dick

#5. I am the one who needs rescuing. Save me ( ... ) Save me from going back to being the man I was before I came here. Save me from all the years of loneliness I'll have to endure without you in my arms. Save me from spending the rest of my life longing for a woman I can never have.

Teresa Medeiros

#6. A rose is still a rose, even hidden under different petals.

Erin R. Bedford

#7. Drinking also maroons you without provisions on the island of self. Like most other promises it makes, alcohol's vow of kinship, that it will bridge your life to others, smooth the way, proves false. Fooled again: you're alone.

James Sallis

#8. When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

John Green