I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
Joyce Stranger
Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.
R P T Coffin
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
Mikhail Strabo
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
Saint Thomas Acquinas
The right man comes at the right time.
Italian Proverb
Why dont you write books people can read
Nora Barnacle
When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
William B Given
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Italo Svevo
Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung
I was in hospital once. There was a man in another ward, dying of throat cancer. In the silence, I could hear his screams continually. That's the only kind of form my work has.
Samuel Beckett
Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
John Huston
Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
John Gielgud
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
Norse Proverb
I would think
Until I found
Something
I can never find;
– Something
Lying
On the ground,
In the bottom
Of my mind.
James Stephens
"Spring and All" from Spring and All (1923)
William Carlos Williams
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
Carol Lewis
I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.
Dorothy H Rath
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
Giambattista Vico
All things are in all.
Giordano Bruno
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
Robert Wilson
We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Campbell
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.
Lolita Vladimir Nabakov
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.