Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

David Brin

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Chaim Potok

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

Chaim Potok

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

David Brock

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

David Brock

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benjamin Hoff

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Dashiell Hammett

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Dashiell Hammett

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

Dashiell Hammett

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

Dashiell Hammett

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

Dashiell Hammett

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

Dashiell Hammett

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Dashiell Hammett

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

Barbara Deming

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

James Patterson

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Keith Miller

When I share my reality with you and you don't fix me, we have been intimate because then you share your reality with me and I don't fix you.

Ken Kesey

We thought that by this time that there would be LSD given in classes in college and you would study it and prepare for it.

Reed Hastings

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

Tony Robbins

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Fred Saberhagen

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

Fred Saberhagen

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.

Frank Yerby

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

Frank Yerby

From where they stood, they could see the castle.

Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.