Famous quotes by Authors

"I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed"

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"

Sam Keen, Author

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

Napolean Hill, Author

"Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it"

Ninon de L'Enclos, Author

"The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it"

Simon Travaglia, Author

"Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints"

Naomi Wolf, Author

"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"Find beauty not only in the thing itself, but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides"

Junichiro Tanizaki, Author

"Hath the spirit of all beauty kissed you in the path of duty?"

Anna Katharine Green, Author

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun"

Martin Amis, Author

"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different"

Evan Hunter, Author

"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages"

Hervey Allen, Author

"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch"

James Beard, Author

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed"

Peter S. Beagle, Author

"The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation"

Marquis De Custine, Author

"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls"

Julia Phillips, Author

"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next"

James Lee Burke, Author

"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard"

Eliphas Levi, Author

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality"

Beatrix Potter, Author

"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"

Albert Maltz, Author

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods"

Sophocles, Author

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things"

Sophocles, Author

"No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat"

Sophocles, Author

"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected"

Sophocles, Author

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