Author Quotes

The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

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)

Now as all the sciences are connected with each other, Philosophy is never completed. In a complete system of all the sciences will philosophy for the first time be made manifest.

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

It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.

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

François Mauriac

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Antonio Porchia

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

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.

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

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Alexander Pushkin

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

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lady Margaret Sackville

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

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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