Author Quotes

As Auntie Mame:
Life is a banquet, and some poor suckers are starving to death.

The political situation? A STUPID MESS. The 'kids' are trying to come to some agreement again. They're drawing maps, colouring with their crayons, but I think they're crossing out human beings, childhood and everything that's nice and normal. They are really just like kids.

"I've let you teach too many science fiction classes," I said.
Dr. Identity's pupils mutated into large asterisks. "It's possible. More likely, however, I'm just a product of the future. and the future's been extinct for a long time."

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

All books avoid, for they
Are the disgrace of our humanity,
And the assassins of the human race.
Mark well my words: the true
Philosophy consists in growing fat.

Railways and the Church have their critics, but both are the best ways of getting a man to his ultimate destination.

People's lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what's underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

We approached our new microwave oven with the trepidation of two people returning to a reactor station after a leak.

Fanny Cradock
Fanny Cradock
Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.

They plucked communion tables down
And broke our painted glasses;
They threw our altars to the ground
And tumbled down the crosses.
They set up Cromwell and his heir—
The Lord and Lady Claypole—
Because they hated Common Prayer,
The organ and the maypole.

You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.

I'm sorry I cannot say I love you when you say you love me. The words, like moist fingers, appear before me full of promise but then run away to a narrow black room that is always dark, where they are silent, elegant, like antique gold, devouring the thing I feel.

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was.

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

Certainly, before colonization, some of the greatest and most powerful and wealthiest and most technologically and intellectually advanced empires in the world were in Africa, from Ghana, Mali and Songhai...We're not taught about precolonial West Africa. We're not even taught about Africa today! [...] And I don't think we should focus on Europe because that is a demonstration to me of racism.

Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi
The starres, bright cent'nels of the skies.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

Melissa de la Cruz
Melissa de la Cruz
For some reason our lives were marked by summers.... Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

Jostein Gaarder
Jostein Gaarder
An intellectual who accommodates the ruling caste betrays the spirit. For the spirit is not conservative and grants no privileges. It dissolves; it equalizes; and it pushes through the ruins of hundreds of castles toward the final fulfillment of truth and justice, and their completion, even if it is the completion of death.

Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.

William George Jordan
William George Jordan
The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

Robert Barron (bishop)
Robert Barron (bishop)
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.

V. C. Andrews
V. C. Andrews