Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.
I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.
The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.
I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.
We wanted to present the Headless Horseman in a new light. That's where the fun comes in, of just diving in.
Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.