Quote from Edward Dahlberg

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977),American novelist.

Quote from Zona Gale

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.-Zona Gale,'MIGGY.'

Quote from Joseph Hergesheimer

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.-Joseph Hergesheimer(1880-1954)

Quote from Patricia Robert Harris

Those who start out as outcasts can wind up being part of the system.-Patricia Roberts Harris,NEWSWEEK,January 24,1977.

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like a bird in flight,your life can soar above the troubles of the world.Breathe deep,choose and break the shackles of your past.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Quentin Crisp

In an expanding universe,time is on the side of the outcast.Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.-Quentin Crisp

Quote from Anais Nin

Reality doesn't impress me.I only believe in intoxication,in ecstasy,and when ordinary life shackles me,I escape,one way or another.No more walls.-Anais Nin

Quote from Ezra Miller

Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another,and yet we have these standards and beliefs,and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking,in almost all of the societies of the world.-Ezra Miller

Quote from Michael Crichton

If you don't know history,then you don't know anything.You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.-Michael Crichton

Interesting quote from Dorothy Allison

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.-Dorothy Allison(b.1949)

Quote from Dorothy Allison

The bottomline is I'm writing to save the dead.I'm writing to save the people I have lost,some of whose bodies are still walking around.-Dorothy Allison

Quote from Steven Wright

I had to stop driving my car for a while---the tires got dizzy.-Steve Wright(b.1955)

Quote from Charles Browder

When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity,the only sure result is commercial constipation.The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals,not spewed out by groups.-Charles Browder

Quote from Emo Phillips

My computer beat me at checkers,but I sure beat it at kickboxing.-Emo Phillips

Quote from Howard Fast

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.-Howard Fast,APRIL MORNING

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take the initiative-don't wait for life to come to you.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Charles Luckman

Success is that old ABC-ability,breaks and courage.-Charles Luckman

Quote on Hawaii

Hawaii's the 50th state?I thought it was a suburb of Guam.-Bobby Heenan

Quote from Dorothy Allison

Write to your fear.-Dorothy Allison

Quote from William S.Burroughs

It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.-William S.Burroughs

Quote on writing

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.-Dorothy Allison(b.1949)

Quote on forgiveness

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate.It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.-William Arthur Ward

Quote on teenagers

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.-Dorothy Allison(b.1949)

Quote from Dorothy Allison

Change,when it comes,cracks everything open.-Dorothy Allison

Quote from Elizabeth Berg

Don't let your habits become handcuffs.-Anonymous

Quote from Conor Oberst

If the world could remain like a painting on the wall,I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.-Conor Oberst

Quote from Brooks Atkinson

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.-Brooks Atkinson(1894-1984)

Quote from Susan Sontag

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent,guilt-ridden one;or both.Usually both.-Susan Sontag

Quote from Harper Lee

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.-Harper Lee

Interesting quote from Thomas Pynchon

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists meaning ,'doesn't like to talk to reporters.''-Thomas Pynchon

Provocative quote on America

I see America spreading disaster.I see America as a black curse upon the world.I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.-Henry Miller

Quote from John Ford

I am ---a mushroom;on whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.-John Ford

Another quote from Rodney Dangerfield

I drink too much.The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.-Rodney Dangerfield(1921-2004)

Quote on Harvard

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,and turns them into prunes.-Frank Lloyd Wright(1867-1959)

Quote from Max Frisch

We asked for workers.We got people instead.-Max Frisch

Great quotev from Grace Hopper

If you do something once,people will call it an accident.If you do it twice,they call it a coincidence.But do it a third time,and you've just proven a natural law.-Grace Hopper

Another quote from Rodney Dangerfield

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.-Rodney Dangerfield(1921-2004).

Quote from Kin Hubbard

Many a family tree needs trimming.-Kin Hubbard(1868-1930),American humorist and writer.

Quote from Rodney Dangerfield

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice-I don't know if I'm coming or going.-Rodney Dangerfield

Quote from David Moulton

Why is American beer served cold?
So you can tell it from urine.-David Moulton

Quote by David Bowie

I'll paint you moments of gold,I'll spin you Valentine evenings.-David Bowie

Quote from Janet Erskine Stuart

You must grow like a tree,not like a mushroom.-Janet Erskine Stuart

A Turkish proverb

Either drive the camel to pasture or leave the country.-Turkish proverb

Quote from George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.-George Eliot(1819-1880)

Quote from Woodrow Wilson

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted refuse.-Woodrow Wilson(1856-1924)

Quote from Owen Feltham

There is no belittling worse than to overpraise a man.-Owen Feltham

Quote by Brooks Atkinson

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.Let it go,for it was imperfect,and thank God that it can go.-Brooks Atkinson(1894-1984)

Quote from Stephen Sondheim

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is,you know there is a solution.-Stephen Sondheim

Quote on bureaucrats

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.-Brooks Atkinson(1894-1984)

Quote on rain

Rain is grace;rain is the sky condescending to the earth;without rain there would be no life.-John Updike

Quote from Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.-Brooks Atkinson

Quote from Taylor Swift

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer.-Taylor Swift

Quote from Gorilla Zoe

I lost my mind and still haven't found it,I used to be so well-rounded,But now I tiptoe on hell's boundaries.-Gorilla Zoe

Quote on Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters,the flaming tower of dusky regality,who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.-Brooks Atkinson(1894-1984),American journalist and critic.

Quote from Brook Atkinson

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor.Try it for half a day first..-Brooks Atkinson

Quote from Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity,who never look backward to their ancestors.-Edmund Burke

Thoughtful quote from John O'Donohue

When you steal a people's language,you leave their soul bewildered.-John O'Donohue

Quote from William Paley

Who can refute a sneer?-William Paley

Quote from William Hazlitt

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others.They are safe from reprisals.And have no hope of rising in their own self-esteem but by lowering their neighbors.-William Hazlitt.

Quote from Booker T.Washington

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.-Booker T.Washington

Quote from Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort,that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest,then becomes a host,and then a master.-Khalil Gibran

Another quote from Mason Cooley

Love begins with an image;lust with a sensation.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.-Thomas Hobbes

Quote from Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Napoleon Hill

When defeat comes,accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound,rebuild those plans,and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.-Napoleon Hill

Great quote from Will Rogers

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,to buy things they don't want,to impress people they don't like.-Will Rogers,American humorist and Congressman.

Quote from Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill,one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.-Nelson Mandela

Quote on frugality

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence,the sister of Temperance,and the parent of Liberty.-Samuel Johnson(1709-1784).

Quote from Frank A.Clark

We find comfort among those who agree with us----growth among those who don't.-Frank A.Clark

Quote on frugality

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.-Edmund Burke

Quote from George Herbert

Be thrifty,but not covetous.-George Herbert

Quote from Nancy Gibbs

Death will never be pretty---its sights and smells too close and crude.And it will never come under our control;it gallops where we tiptoe,rips up our routines,burns our very breath with its heat and sting.-Nancy Gibbs

Quote on Malcolm De Chazal

The idealist walks on tiptoe,the materialist on his heels.-Malcolm De Chazal

Quote from Josh Billings

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries,but wisdom is everywhere ,wide awake,on tiptoe.-Josh Billings

Quote from Doug Larson

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.-Doug Larson

Great quote from Nora Ephron

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.-Nora Ephron,HEARTBURN

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

Quote from Wayne Dyer

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.-Wayne Dyer

Quote from Joan Rivers

People say that money is not the key to happiness,but I always figured if you have enough money,you can have a key made.-Joan Rivers

Quote from Christopher Fry

What after all,is a halo?It's only one more thing to keep clean.-Christopher Fry(1907-2005)

Quote from Joan Rivers

I have flabby thighs,but fortunately my stomach covers them.-Joan Rivers

Quote from Christopher Fry

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.-Christopher Fry(1907-2005)

Quote from Lemony Snicket

Wicked people never have time for reading.It is one of the reasons for their wickedness.-Lemony Snicket

Quote from Abe Lemons

One day of practice is like one day of clean living.It doesn't do you any good.-Abe Lemons

Olive oil brand that you consumed in October 2013

In October 2013,you bought and finished consuming a 750 g glass bottle of PUGET -Extra-virgin olive oil.It was a product of France,and was imported from France.PUGET was established in 1857.
                                         This olive oil brand was very light and quite good.This was the first time you had bought and consumed an olive oil brand from France.

Great quote from Laura Davenport

If idiots could fly,the sky would be like an airport.-Laura Davenport

Quote from Conor Oberst

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep,and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.-Conor Oberst

Quote from Barbara Sher

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.-Barbara Sher

Quote from Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.-Carl Jung

Quote from Helen Hayes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.-Helen Hayes(1900-1993),American actress.

Quote from Rabindranath Tagore

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.-Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941)

Quote on the moon

The moon is nothing but a circumabulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate.-Christopher Fry(1907-2005),English writer.

Quote from Christopher Fry

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.-Christopher Fry

Great quote by Helen Hayes

Always aim for achievement,and forget about success.-Helen Hayes,American actress(1900-1993)

Quote on egocentrics

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept.It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.-Actress Helen Hayes(1900-1993).

Quote on stardom

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.-Actress Helen Hayes

Quote from Helen Hayes

When traveling with someone,take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.-Helen Hayes

Quote on travel

The faster we travel,the less there is to see.-Helen Hayes

Quote from Joan Rivers

I have a million-dollar figure----but it's all loose change.-Joan Rivers

Quote on greatness

Some are born great.Some achieve greatness.Some get it as a graduation gift.-Robin Williams

Quote on comedy

Comedy is acting out of optimism.-Robin Williams

Funny quote on plastic surgery

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting,or 'fat recycling',wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large,such as your buttocks,and injected into your lips.People will then be literally kissing ass.-Dave Barry(b.1947),American humorist and newspaper columnist.

Quote on cricket

Cricket is baseball on valium.-Robin Williams

Quote from Susan Thurman

A person who belly-laughs doesn't bellyache.-Susan Thurman

Great quote on poems

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.-Anne Michael,FUGITIVE PIECES.

Quote on diets

Diets,like clothes,should be tailored to you.-Joan Rivers

Quote from Joan Rivers

My face has been tucked in more times than a bed sheet at the Holiday Inn.-Joan Rivers,American comedian and talk show host.

Quote from Eric Hoffer

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves.The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.-Eric Hoffer

Great quote from Joan Rivers

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.-Joan Rivers(b.1933)

Quote from Claudia Roden

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.-Claudia Roaden

The Polar Bear Capital of The World

Churchill,Manitoba calls itself `The Polar Bear Capital of the World.'

Great quote on friends

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee.It is a whole lot of trouble,and then not worth much after you get it.-Zora Neale Hurston

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobacco,coffee,alcohol,hashish,prussic acid,strychnine,are weak dilutions;the surest poison is time.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,American essayist,lecturer and philosopher

A couple of quotes from Clarence Darrow

1.No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.-Clarence Darrow,VOLTAIRE(B.1916).
2.There is no such crime as a crime of thought;there are only crimes of action.-Clarence Darrow(1857-1938)

Quote from Doris Day

If it's true that men are such beasts,this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.-Doris Day,American actress(b.1924).

Another quote from Charles Darrow

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants,sure of themselves,strong in their own opinions,never doubting anything.-Clarence Darrow

Quote from Clarence Darrow

The purpose of a man is like the purpose of a pollywog-to wiggle along as far as he can without dying;or,to hang to life till death takes him.-Clarence Darrow

Quote from Robin Williams

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt.-Robin Williams

Quote from Pete Townshend

We tried not to age,but time had its rage.-Pete Townshend

Quote from Lily Tomlin

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.-Lily Tomlin

Quote on decaffeinated coffee

Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.-Bob Irwin

Quote on Autobiography

Autobiography is never entirely true.No one can get the right perspective on himself.Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.-Clarence Darrow,THE STORY OF MY LIFE(1932)

Quote from Agatha Christie

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.-Agatha Christie

Great quotes on coffee

1. Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.-Terri Guillemets
2.Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.-Jessi Lane Adams
3.I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.-Terri Guillemets

A couple of quotes

1.Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.-Oscar Wilde
2.I had some dreams,they were clouds in my coffee.-Carly Simon

Quote on strong coffee

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.-Betty MacDonald

Quote from Clarence Darrow

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.-Clarence Darrow

Quote from Pete Townsend

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.-Pete Townsend

Quote from Clarence Darrow

Depressions may bring people closer to the church,but so do funerals.-Clarence Darrow

Quote on birth control

Whenever I hear of birth control,I always remember that I was the fifth.-Clarence Darrow

Great quote from Joan Rivers

I've had so much plastic surgery,when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.-Joan Rivers

Quote from Clarence Darrow

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.-Clarence Darrow

Quote from John Adams

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber,or kill a flea.-John Adams

Great Turkish proverb

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.-Turkish proverb

A German proverb

The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.-German proverb

Quote from Clarence Darrow

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.-Clarence Darrow(1857-1938).

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.Let the image of your success play on the giant screen in full color with surround sound-so real you can smell and taste it.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from May Sarton

The more articulate one is,the more dangerous words become.-May Sarton

Quote on religion

Some of you say religion makes people happy.So does laughing gas.-American celebrity lawyer Clarence Darrow(1857-1938)

Quote on laws

Laws should be like clothes.They should be made to fit the people they serve.-Clarence Darrow

Quote on patriotism

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.-Clarence Darrow(1857-1938)

Quote from Margaret Deland

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue.It's a spiritual dissipation.-Margaret Deland

Great quote from Clarence Darrow

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.-Clarence Darrow.

Some interesting quotes

1.If you lose the power to laugh,you lose the power to think.-Clarence Darrow
2.Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.-Clarence Darrow
3.To think is to differ.-Clarence Darrow(1857-1938)
4.Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.-Jimmy Buffett(b.1946)
5.Hatred is blind,as well as love.-Oscar Wilde

Quote on sympathy

Sympathy is the child of imagination.-Clarence Darrow

Quote from Felix Frankfurter

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions,especially when it is deep.-Felix Frankfurter

Great quote from Clarence Darrow

Working people have a lot of bad habits,but the worst of these is work.-Clarence Darrow(1857-1938),American lawyer.

Interesting quote on photographers

Photographers are failed painters.-Paul Theroux,PICTURE PALACE(1978).

Quote from Doris Day

Gratitude is riches.Complaint is poverty.-Doris Day(b.1924),American actress born in Cincinnati,Ohio

Quote from Arthur Phelps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.-Arthur Phelps(1813-1875),English historian and novelist

Quote on vulgarity

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.-Doris Day

Quote on Hawaii

Hawaii is not a state of mind,but a state of grace.-Paul Theroux

Another quote from Paul Theroux

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.-Paul Theroux

Quote from Paul Theroux

I cannot make my days longer,so I strive to make them better.-Paul Theroux

Quote from Margaret Deland

Convictions do not imply reasons.-Margaret Deland

Quote from Doris Day

Middle age is youth without levity,and age without decay.-Doris Day,American actress and singer

Quote on paranoia

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.-Pat Conroy,BEACH MUSIC

Quote from Thurgood Marshall

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings,we pay ourselves the highest tribute.-Thurgood Marshall

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the medioctities.-Oscar Wilde

Quote from Penelope Lively

The past is our ultimate privacy;we pile it up,year by year,decade by decade,it stows itself away,with its perverse random recall system.-Penelope Lively,HOW IT ALL BEGAN

Great quote on criticism

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.-F.Scott Fitzgerald

Great quote from Gene Tunney

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.-Gene Tunney

Quote on history

History is a slippery business;the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.-Penelope Lively,HOW IT ALL BEGAN.

Quote on the Kindle

It seems to me that anybody whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.-Penelope Lively

Quote from Margaret Deland

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.-Margaret Deland(1857-1945)

Quote from William Safire

When articulation becomes impossible,gesticulation comes to the rescue.-William Safire

Great quote on fence-sitters

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.-David Lloyd George,British prime minister(1863-1945)

Quote on beauty

Beauty is a fragile gift.-Ovid

Quote from Pat Conroy

In happy times,love poured out of me like bright honey from a stolen hive.But in times of hurt and loss I withdrew into a self-made enclosure of impenetrable solitude.-Pat Conroy,THE PRINCE OF TIDES.

Quote on narrative

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.-Scott Turow

Quote on old age

Old age is an insult.Old age is a slap in the face.It sabotages a fine mind---.-Penelope Lively,HOW IT ALL BEGAN.

Quote from Penelope Lively

Language tethers us to the world;without it we spin like atoms.-Penelope Lively,MOON TIGER.

A Greek proverb

Milk the cow,but do not pull off the udder.-Greek proverb

Quote from Sydney Smith

No furniture is so charmming as books.-Sydney Smith,English clergyman,essayist and wit (1771-1845).

Quote from Alan Rickman

I've never been able to plan my life.I just lurch from indecision to indecision.-Alan Rickman

Another quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We censor our actions,but our dreams reveal our true character.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An overfull calendar,like an overfull stomach,is a consequence of taking on too much.Commit,and eat,in moderation.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote on the morning

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.-Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887).

Quote from H.Jackson Brown Jr.

In business or in life,don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.-H.Jackson Brown,Jr.

Quote on manic depression

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity.-Patty Duke

Quote from Woody Allen

In California,they don't throw their garbage away-they make it into Tv shows.-Woody Allen

Superb quote on napping

Take naps.Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep,but you have to train yourself to remember them.-Jane Smiley

Quote on cocktail music

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.-Alistair Cooke

Quote on novelists

A novelist has two lives-a reading and writing life,and a lived life.He or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.-Jane Smiley,THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE NOVEL.

Interesting quote from H.Jackson Brown,Jr.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.-H.Jackson Brown,Jr.

Quote from Jane Smiley

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ.The infection,when it comes-may overwhelm the system,be it the immune system or the belief system.-Jane Smiley

Quote from Isabel Norton

In my friend,I find a second self.-Isabel Norton

Quote on autumn

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.-Albert Camus

Quote from Israel Zangwill

The only true love is love at first sight;second sight dispels it.-Israel Zangwill

Quote from Israel Zangwill

The only true love is love at first sight;second sight dispels it.-Israel Zangwill

A couplev of quotes from Ellen Glasgow

1.All change is not growth,as all movement is not forward.-Ellen Glasgow
2.I haven't much opinion of words.They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue,that's what I say.-Ellen Glasgow

Great quote on tradition

Tradition is like a second-hand store.It is best to sort carefully between the treasures and the trash.See everything with new eyes.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote on hibernation

Hibernation is a covert operation for a more overt action.-Ralph Ellison

Great quote from Simon Raven

Dusk is the time of day when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.-Simon Raven(1927-2001),British satirical novelist.

Quote from Alan Moore

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.-Alan Moore

Another quote from Ellen Glasgow

The only difference between a rut and a grave are their dimensions.-Ellen Glasgow

Quote from Ellen Glasgow

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion.-Ellen Glasgow

Dusk

Quote from Andrew Carnegie

The first man gets the oyster,the second man gets the shell.-Andrew Carnegie

Great quote from Paul Theroux

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.-Paul Theroux

Great quote from Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments:they make a fine cushion for old age.-Booth Tarkington(1869-1946),American novelist and dramatist.

Quote from Booth Tarkington

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.-Booth Tarkington

Quote from Stephen Covey

Take time to sharpen the saw.-Stephen Covey

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

We must use time creatively.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote on modern music

Modern music always sounds like trout farting in salt water to me.-Pat Conroy,THE PRINCE OF TIDES(1986),page 194

Quote from Rita Rudner

When I eventually met Mr.Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.-Rita Rudner

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the tongue had been not framed for articulation,man would still be a beast in the forest.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Superb quote from Betty Smith

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.-Betty Smith

Great quote from George Bernard Shaw

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To say "too busy'' is merely to say ''confused priorities.''-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great quote on time

Time expands like a brightly colored balloon when it is filled with joy.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Natalie Clifford Barney

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.-Natalie Clifford Barney

Great quote on history

History is malleable.A new cache of diaries can shed new light,and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.-Ken Burns

Interesting quote from George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.-George Eliot

Quote from Shelley Winters

I'm not overweight,I'm just nine inches too short.-Shelley Winters,American actress

Quote on self-pity

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again.Just be sure to flush when you are finished.-Debbie Macomber,MRS.MIRACLE

Great quote from George Gissing

Life,I fancy,would very often be insupportable,but for the luxury of self-compassion.-George Gissing

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,but it can keep him from lynching me,and I think that's pretty important.-Martin Luther King Jr.(1929-1968)

Quote from Bruce Springsteen

I think that is what film and art and music do;they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.-Bruce Springsteen

Quote on reading

The end of reading is not more books but more life.-Holbrook Jackson

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing external to you has any power over you.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another quote from Jane Smiley

When people leave,they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.-Jane Smiley

Quote from Jane Smiley

Gossip.The more you talk about why people do things,the more ideas you have about how the world works.-Jane Smiley

Quote from Rex Beach

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot  be turned out.-Rex Beach,THE IRON TRAIL:AN ALASKAN ROMANCE.

Great quote from Bertrand Russell

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.-Bertrand Russell

Another quote from Gene Fowler

It is easier to believe than to doubt.-Gene Fowler

Quote from Gene Fowler

A book is never finished;it's abandoned.-Gene Fowler

Quote from Jane Smiley

Your sons weren't made to like you.That's what grandchildren are for.-Jane Smiley

Quote from Gene Fowler

Men are not against you;they are merely for themselves.-Gene Fowler

Great quote from Gene Fowler

He has a profound respect for old age.Especially when it's bottled.-Gene Fowler

Great quote on success

What is success?It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.-Gene Fowler

Great quote on the free market

There can never be such a thing as a free market ,because it is human nature to cheat,monopolize,and buy off others so as to corner the market.-Jane Smiley(b.1949)

Quote from Jane Smiley

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.-Jane Smiley

Quote from Mickey Spillane

The first chapter sells the book;the last chapter sells the next book.-Mickey Spillane

Quote from Jane Smiley

Like most of the educated,I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.-Jane Smiley

Quote from Ivana Trump

Fiction writing is great.You can make up almost anything.-Ivana Trump

Quote from Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.-Jane Smiley

Quote from Voltaire

The adjective is the enemy of the noun.-Voltaire

Quote on jet lag

Jet lag is your soul trying to catch up after flying.-Ryan Ross

Quote from Gene Fowler

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors,or critics.They are only the traffic cops of the arts.-Gene Fowler

Quote on genius

Genius is initiative on fire.-Holbrook Jackson

Quote on patience

Patience has its limits,take it too far and it's cowardice.-Holbrook Jackson

Quote on intuition

Intuition is reason in a hurry.-Holbrook Jackson

Quote on Holbrook Jackson

When in doubt,risk it.-Holbrook Jackson

Quote on pedantry

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.-Holbrook Jackson

Another quote on writing

Writing is thinking on paper.-William Zinsser

Great quote from Holbrook Jackson

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.-Holbrook Jackson

Quote from Truman Capote

Good writing is rewriting.-Truman Capote

Quote on writing

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Og Mandino

Count your blessings.Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,the smiles will return,the sun will break out,the music will play,and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace,strength,courage and confidence.-Og Mandino

Interesting quote on dinosaurs

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out,but just evolved wings and flew away.At a certain level,this reasoning is sound---Birds,as a group,did descend from dinosaurs and---all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.-David Raup,EXTINCTION:BAD GENES OR BAD LUCK.

Olive oil brand you consumed in September 2013

In September 2013,you bought and finished consuming a 750 ml glass bottle of DANIELLE trademark -Extra Virgin Olive Oil(Cold Pressed).It was imported from Italy.
                               It was quite good.

Great Arab proverb

When you shoot an arrow of truth,dip its point in honey.-Arab proverb

Japanese proverb

A single arrow is easily broken,but often in a bundle.-Japanese proverb

Quote from Khalil Gibran

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?If you are a first,then you are a parasite;if the second,then you are an oasis in the desert.-Khalil Gibran

Quote from Harry S.Truman

Art is parasitic on life,just as criticism is parasitic on art.-Former American president Harry S.Truman

Quote from Rachel Field

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware.Happiness should be like an oasis,the greener for the desert that surrounds it.-Rachel Field

Superb quote from Isaac Asimov

It 's humbling to think that all animals,including human beings,are parasites of the plant world.-Isaac Asimov(died in 1992).

Quote from Salvador Dali

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.-Salvador Dali(1904-1989),Spanish painter.

Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote on insomnia

In its early stage,insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Great quote on faith

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.-Khalil Gibran

Quote from Virginia Woolf

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.-Virginia Woolf

Quote on dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids,and adults,the immensity of geologic time.-Robert T.Bakker,HONOLULU ADVERTISER,July 9,2000.

Quote from Robert T.Bakker

If we measured success by longevity,then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.-Robert T.Bakker,THE DINOSAUR HERESIES.

Quote from Clint Eastwood

They say marriages are made in heaven.But so are thunder and lightning.-Mark Twain

Interesting quote on dinosaurs

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good,an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.-Eric Johnston,TODAY'S REALTOR,Jan 1998.

Great quote on dinosaurs

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more---It's speciesist.You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.-Terry Pratchett,JOHNNY AND THE BOMBS.

Quote from Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity.It's poking and prying with a purpose.-Zora Neale Hurston(1903-1960),American folklorist and writer.

Quote on comedy

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.-Angela Carter(1940-1992)

Another quote from Tom Clancy

Show me an elitist,and I'll show you a loser.-Tom Clancy

Quote on helicopters

Helicopters don't fly,they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.-Tom Clancy

Interesting quote from Tom Clancy

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.-Tom Clancy

Quote from Angela Carter

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.You bring to a novel,anything you read,all your experience of the world.You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.-Angela Carter(1940-1992).

Quote from Tom Clancy

The good old days are now.-Tom Clancy

Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,untelevisioned,unhurried attentiveness.-Mary Anne Radmacher

Quote from St.Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.-Saint Augustine

Quote on education

What does education often do?It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free,meandering brook.-Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862),American writer,naturalist and philosopher.

Great quote from Howard Crosby

To let politics become a cesspool,and then avoid it because it is a cesspool,is a double crime.-Howard Crosby

Interesting quote from Angela Carter

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.-Angela Carter,NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS.

Quote from Khalil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.-Khalil Gibran

Quote from Jeffrey Deaver

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block;the problem is idea block.-Jeffrey Deaver

Quote from Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.-Abraham Lincoln

Great quote from George Washington Carver

There is no short cut to achievement.Life requires thorough preparation-veneer isn't worth anything.-George Washington Carver(1864-1943),American who started his life as a slave and ended it as a horticulturalist,chemist and educator.

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Quote from Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.-Margot Asquith

Quote from Evan Esar

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.-Evan Esar