Author Quotes

Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

Eric Van Lustbader

The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?

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

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

Jack Black (author)

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Just in proportion as the soul is in fellowship with the Lord Jesus, in communion with His will, shall we trace His leadings, hear His voice, and understand in part.

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

Louis J. Camuti

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

Erich Maria Remarque

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

Christopher Rice

Hener was the hero-king,
Heaven-born, dear to us,
Showing his shield
A shelter for peace.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Tobias Smollett

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.

Every person and every team will be tested on their journey. It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion.

Seminar is not yet officially a transitive verb. Still, most graduate students in any large research-oriented university have at times felt themselves more the helpless objects of a seminar than its active participants. Seminared into numbness describes that feeling of oversaturation.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

Science has but one fashion - to lose nothing once gained...

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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

Rosario Castellanos

Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

Anna Bartlett Warner

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.