Famous quotes by Authors

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair, Author

Upton Sinclair

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"

Joel A. Barker, Author

Joel A. Barker

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Get busy living, or get busy dying"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

Upton Sinclair, Author

Upton Sinclair

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

Lillian Smith, Author

Lillian Smith

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real"

Thomas Merton, Author

Thomas Merton

"The Polar Express is about faith and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair"

Sam Ewing, Author

Sam Ewing

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less"

Andre Malraux, Author

Andre Malraux

"All generalizations are false, including this one"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading"

Lao Tzu, Author

"As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"If you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

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