Author Quotes

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

True human life does not take place in time but always "is" at the "timeless" point where the past becomes the future - a point which we incorrectly label the present. This is a timeless point, and people are free only at this point.

You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.

George M. Cohan

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

She moves the way clocks move. And on her face, as on a clock dial which someone shines a light onto at night, a strange, briefly shown hour stands: a terrifying hour, in which someone dies.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

Isaac Rosenberg

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

William Shakespeare

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague de Camp

Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

G. K. Chesterton

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.

William Faulkner

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald