Quotes About The

“The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.”

— Frances Mayes

“When you say things like that to me, I call it a Kardashian. Know why? Because I'm looking for the but.”

— Richard Castle

“But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight - matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one's own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.”

— Leon Wieseltier

“Deep and sustainable change ... requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.”

— Douglas B. Reeves

“How could one help being nervous in this mind-expanding universe, in which the emerging universe would threaten to change unrecognizably in the course of a generation? How could one avoid the ambient fear of all the noise and speed and light and steam? Humans had never been exposed to such phenomona; they had not learned yet to tolerate them.”

— Michelle Stacey

“He watched her through narrowed, half-closed eyes, keeping his breathing regulated so that she dismissed him to take his clothes to the laundry room. He heard her but couldn't see her as she started up the washing machine. Then she was back, meticulously wiping up her hardwood floor until it gleamed. She must have warmed some blankets because she stripped off his blanket and tucked two more around him, still muttering to herself under her breath.
He really was far gone and confused, because he was beginning to find that habit rather adorable.”

— Christine Feehan

“It's amazing how people define roles for themselves and put handcuffs on their experience and are constantly surprised by the things a roulette universe spins at them.”

— Terry Pratchett

“There was a sigh from Death. Space he thought. That was the trouble. It was never like this on worlds with everlastingly cloudy skies. But once humans saw all that space, their brains expanded to try and fill it up.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The eternal and essential truth is that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”

— Billy Sunday

“I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.”

— Gary Cole

“She was nicknamed the graveyard. Any secret, any piece of confidential information, personal or otherwise, that went in never, ever came back out. You knew you were safe; you knew you would never be judged or, if you were it would be silently, so you'd never know.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”

— Toba Beta

“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”

— John C. Maxwell

“You do not comprehend. It is not the victim who concerns me so much. It is the effect on the character of the slayer."
"What about war?"
"In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is what is so dangerous. Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not - then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is - the arrogant killer who kills not for profit - but for an idea. He has usurped the functions of le bon Dieu.”

— Agatha Christie

“We looked at each other for what seemed like an hour. He seemed to pity me, and I started to hate him, even though it is a cardinal sin to hate a priest, one of the deadliest, I do believe.”

— Matthew Quick

“I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.”

— Viswanathan Anand

“Landon drops the bloody knife and stares at Summer like he doesn't even know her anymore. The truth is, she'll never be the girl she was seven months ago. Too much has happened. Too much has changed.
"Why'd you do that?" Summer cries.
"To save you," he says.
But there's nothing left to save.”

— Laura Kreitzer

“It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.”

— Nicholas Brendon

“I think a lot of TV insults the audience.”

— Bernie Mac

“The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is ... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?”

— Ben Horowitz

“I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.”

— Joel Edgerton

“Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about,”

— Oscar Wilde

“When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
as told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett”

— Samuel Beckett

“Your first love is important. It's part of your story. The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.”

— Jennifer Weiner

“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.”

— Julian Barnes

“I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.”

— Isaac Parker

“As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.”

— James Vila Blake

“This girl who was so gorgeous and broken and scared. The woman who'd become my responsibility. My future. Because I'd be damned if I remained a prisoner to my past. One I'd never walk away from again. I loved Shea Bentley and she loved me. It's where it started and where it ended. Nothing before or after or in between mattered.”

— A.L. Jackson

“We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.”

— Samuel Gompers

“Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.”

— Matthieu Ricard

“They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.”

— Bernard De Mandeville

“Black and white are absolute ... expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.”

— Shiko Munakata

“In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.”

— Vicki Baum

“[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!”

— William Halsey

“I really like the melody "Red Wine Is Good For My Heart" and people respond to it. I decided to put it on the album.”

— Cheyenne Jackson

“If the question was did we want to delay the revelation? ... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.”

— William Mapother

“It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.”

— Cliff Richard

“I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar two prizes. This is first my son who is about to be born. The other is my trophy from Fifa, which I want to dedicate to God.”

— Kaka

“I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).”

— Markus Zusak

“Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.”

— Jack Canfield

“Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable ...”

— James Bovard

“The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.”

— Morgan Freeman

“Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets”

— Thom Yorke

“Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.”

— John Ruskin

“Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.”

— Grace Paley

“Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.”

— Richard Branson