Author Quotes

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

George M. Cohan

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

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

Jacopo Sannazaro

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

György Konrád

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.

George Bernard Shaw

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

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

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

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

José Bergamín

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

Lady Margaret Sackville

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

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Mickey Spillane

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

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

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

Agatha Christie

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

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

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

Antonio Porchia

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

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

That's really the best ambition, to be hungry for sensual experience in your life. Ravenous. Artists are not intellectuals. We are sensualists.

Robert Olen Butler