Quotes By Popular Topics: [Z]
It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation ...
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.
Up. The fact that they managed to find each other was probably a minor miracle. They'd have to enjoy it while it lasted.
Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good ...
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative ...
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the ...
It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in ...
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
And simple it was to join up. There was no better time
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or playing God.This is ...
Butch nodded as if he knew exactly what was doing. Like I said, my man, it's whatever. You and me? Same as always, no matter ...
Chester had even told Zane to call him Grandpa.
Never mistake motion for action.
Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past ...
I have faith in us as a family, and our friends. I think we will survive because we don't wish to harm anyone. If you ...
Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.
What does the leopard teach us? Not to be intimidated by animals that outweigh him. To be fearless and daring. It ...
Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.
You put the seat down to piss, don't you?" I asked, grinning."Nah. Don't like getting my dick wet.
I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.
Is it a toy?" asked Button-Bright softly."No, dear," answered Dorothy; "it's better than that. It's the fairy dwelling of a fairy prince.
In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie.
Most important thing in life is family,Without them you are nothing.Whatever you do will be worth nothing,If there is no one to appreciate it.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison
Destroy if all, then hand what was left over to Robert Suydam and these gathered goons? What would they do differently? Mankind didn't make messes; ...
When I meet with world leaders, what's striking - whether it's in Europe or here in Asia ... - Barack Obama, mistakenly referring to Hawaii ...
Peace is simple, but it takes great courage to be simple and walk the path of peace.
Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E..
To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And ...
I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our ...
When i close my eyes i see you no Matter where i am
I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
He has no theistic beliefs, but shares the poetic naturalism that the cosmos provokes in
Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to ...
Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.
They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted.
Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and ...
Full of questions and pleas, her eyes seemed to be asking for rescue.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful ...
And because people loved conspiracy theories even back then, suddenly everyone became a member of the Illuminati: Galileo, the Babylonian goddess Lilith, Lucifer, and eventually ...
I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like ...
How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.
I like the punch beggers and panhandlers when they ask me for change. I feel like I am doing my part to clean up the ...
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Being Number Two Sucks.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned W. B. Yeats 'The Second Coming ...
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
The whole white world is ours.
Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire ...
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This ...
When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make ...
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a ...
If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.
Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing ...
Like most people of the time, that North America
He reached into the grate, picked out a couple of scraps, smoothed them out, leaning close to the flickering light. He was curious to see ...
Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is ...
Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.
I swear. Tell someone you're a vampire or a werewolf and they think it's sexy. Tell someone you're a witch and they go from zero ...
You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do ...
I'm not very firey, but when I go, I go. I don't shout, I just get upset.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.
Perception is a powerful tool.
The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It just ...
I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in ...
The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and ...
If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get ...
Your Day Is Your Life
It's not a good idea to put fruit trees in parks," said a city official. "People throw it." Historic
And I didn't know how to feel the feeling I was feeling.
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
Life is always in the eyes.
Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and ...
I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was ...
Simple Pleasures Life is all about the simple pleasuresso I passed on the multilingual GPS optionon the my Bentley Continental GTZ Zagatoand felt the better ...
We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet,And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet;Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit,For we's not very fow, ...
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not ...
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move ...
My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realized. I couldn't have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man ...
It's us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.
Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means ...
With all our new technologies, I feel like these feelings have really been dampened. Even if you are thousands of kilometers from somebody, you can ...
Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted ...
Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I ...
The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers ...
If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; ...