Famous quotes by Authors

"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... One can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Good writing is like a windowpane"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"At fifty everyone has the face he deserves"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It is never too late to be what you might have been"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

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