Author Quotes

The best may slip, and the most cautious fall; He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Chérie Carter-Scott

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

James Tate (writer)

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

John Godfrey Saxe

The idea is to perceive your invention as a reality that can be understood as a dream. The idea is to turn flesh and blood into literary characters and literary characters into flesh and blood.

The Raelian Movement is an atheistic religion that perfectly merges science and spirituality, and it includes many female priests. Men and women must rise above their previous cultural conditioning and look to the future with a new awareness encompassing beauty and femininity.

You cannot sit at home as a twenty-year-old poet. You don't know anything about life.

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

Margaret Junkin Preston

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

Frederick Busch

Because I longed to comprehend the infinite I drew a line between the known and unknown.

Elizabeth Bartlett

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

Daphne du Maurier

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

I am the daughter of myself.
I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.

Rosario Castellanos

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

I am called "Venus Hottentot."
I left Capetown with a promise
of revenue: half the profits
and my passage home: A boon!
Master's brother proposed the trip;
the magistrate granted me leave
I would return to my family
a duchess, with watered-silk
dresses and money to grow food.

Elizabeth Alexander (poet)

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his own fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

The law of cause and effect does not hide in the realm of the unexpected when intelligent beings go looking for it.

Gertrude Atherton

Here come the Slavophiles and Nihilists, and none of them have clean fingernails.

We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; we're very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.

Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind, breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the cleansed.