Famous quotes by Authors

"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That and surprise"

Julia Cameron, Author

"A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls"

Sam Keen, Author

"Nothing dies harder than a bad idea"

Julia Cameron, Author

"Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself"

Julia Cameron, Author

"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy"

Napolean Hill, Author

"Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality"

Naomi Wolf, Author

"A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them"

Ninon de L'Enclos, Author

"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke"

Max Eastman, Author

"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something"

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author

"A smile is the universal welcome"

Max Eastman, Author

"I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides"

Junichiro Tanizaki, Author

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, which the reader recognizes as his own"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can"

Martha Beck, Author

"There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration"

Anna Katharine Green, Author

"When good befalls a man, he calls it Providence, when evil, fate"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms"

Anthony Storr, Author

"A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems, but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood"

John Gray, Author

"The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness"

Francis Scott Key, Author

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security"

Suze Orman, Author

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love"

Wally Lamb, Author

"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street"

Robert Cormier, Author

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of"

Sarah Orne Jewett, Author

"He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something"

Michael Chabon, Author

"Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership"

James MacGregor Burns, Author

"Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave"

Francis Scott Key, Author

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