Famous quotes by Authors

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one"

Willa Cather, Author

"Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer"

Willa Cather, Author

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?"

Willa Cather, Author

"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing"

Ken Kesey, Author

"It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast"

Ken Kesey, Author

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"

Ken Kesey, Author

"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph"

Ken Kesey, Author

"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind"

Robert Collier, Author

"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!"

Robert Collier, Author

"It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass"

Robert Collier, Author

"If you don't make things happen, then things will happen to you"

Robert Collier, Author

"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing"

Robert Collier, Author

"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm"

Jean Paul, Author

"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles"

Annie Dillard, Author

"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years"

Jean Paul, Author

"Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you"

Annie Dillard, Author

"You can't test courage cautiously"

Annie Dillard, Author

"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block"

Annie Dillard, Author

"The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart"

Annie Dillard, Author

"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

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