quotes by Writer Quotes

“I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”

“Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.”

“If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”

“Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.”

“An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.”

“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”

“An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.”

“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.”

“The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.”

“Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion”

“We are most alive when we're in love.”

“It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.”

“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?”

“From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”

“Who needs action when you got words?”

“What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes”

“Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.”

“I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”

“The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.”

“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”

“There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”

“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”

“You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;But yet you draw not iron, for my heartIs true as steel: leave you your power to draw,And I shall have no power to follow you.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.”

“When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.”

“I was blown up while we were eating cheese.”

“What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!”

“I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.”

“Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.”

“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.”

“He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.”

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

“I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.”

“Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.”

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.”

“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”

“As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.”

“I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.”

“Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.”

“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”

“You're not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You're not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don't know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. And the venom they felt for their own government!”

“Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.”

“Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.”

“I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheetI'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat”

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”