Voltairine Cleyr Quotes

#1. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Marianne Curley

#2. Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.

Christopher Bram

#3. After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

Paul Auster

#4. All around me, grown-up voices called out, "Amen!" as if the word was a hall pass into Heaven.

Jane Yolen

#5. Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.

Oliver Sacks

#6. The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.

El-P

#7. I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

Amy Heckerling

#8. I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself.

Richard Fish

#9. Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

Rebecca West

#10. A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

Gary Hume

#11. Sometimes forgiveness is the
hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

Maya Banks