Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.
There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.