Shimmeringly Colorful Quotes

#1. Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

Adam Ant

#3. We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.

Bruce Cockburn

#4. I'm not sure I'm cut out for this wise-advice business. Maybe I should wear a fake white beard to convince myself I am a sage.

Cassandra Clare

#5. I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

#6. There's a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.

Calista Flockhart

#8. His bare, fit butt matched the rest of him in exquisite, reflected detail. I blushed, turning my eyes away to focus instead on the shadows outside. I was embarrassed to have peeked, but I knew the image would be ingrained into my mind forever. Another secret.

C.L.Stone

#9. To be always right, be compassionate and kind.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Baruch Spinoza

#11. Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure.

Richard Wright

#12. The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Wendy Beckett

#13. I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

Juliet Marillier