Famous quotes by Authors

"Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

"Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The authentic self is the soul made visible"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Character is more important than talent"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"Supply always comes on the heels of demand"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"Age does not matter if the matter does not age"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

Evelyn Waugh

"There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

Evelyn Waugh

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

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