Author Quotes

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

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

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

Jeff Smith (chef)

A great enormous thing, like — like nothing. A huge big — well, like a — I don't know — like an enormous big nothing.

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

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

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

Jacopo Sannazaro

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

José Bergamín

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

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.

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.

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

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

William Ralph Inge

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

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

François Mauriac

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Lady Margaret Sackville

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

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

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

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