Famous quotes by Authors

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"The examined life is no picnic"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"Clean up your own mess"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams"

Elias Canetti, Author

"In philosophy, if you aren't moving at a snail's pace, you aren't moving at all"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people"

James Bovard, Author

"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"People's fates are simplified by their names"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food"

Elias Canetti, Author

"In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to"

Bruce Barton, Author

"Conceit is God's gift to little men"

Bruce Barton, Author

"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Education is all a matter of building bridges"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can develop greatness of character"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"Our first and last love is self-love"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"Happiness lies first of all in health"

George William Curtis, Author

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language"

Larry Wall, Author

"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases"

Larry Wall, Author

"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Writing for young children, I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children, too"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"When I was a child, I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly, it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books"

Margaret Mahy, Author

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