Byron Quotes

"The hand that kindles cannot quench the flame."- Byron

Hotaru Takana Quotes

"Until now, I've always believed the UK was in the middle of Europe. This is a story written by an idiot like that."-Hotaru Takana

William Blake Quotes

X X X

Of coldest crimson

X X X X X

O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm.

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

- William Blake

Winston Churchill Quotes

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."- Winston Churchill

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."-Winston Churchill

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."- Winston Churchill

Elbert Hubbard Quotes

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."- Elbert Hubbard

Mark Twain Quotes

"Go to heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."- Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."- Mark Twain

"Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it."- Mark Twain

James Michener Quotes

"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."-James Michener

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."-James Michener

"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."-James Michener

"America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them."-James Michener

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."-James Michener

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."-James Michener

"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."-James Michener

"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."-James Michener

"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."-James Michener

Robert Frost Quotes

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."-Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."-Robert Frost

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."-Robert Frost

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."-Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."-Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."-Robert Frost

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-Robert Frost

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."-Robert Frost

"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in."-Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-Robert Frost

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."-Robert Frost

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."-Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."-Robert Frost

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."-Robert Frost

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."-Robert Frost

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."-Robert Frost

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."-Robert Frost

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."-Robert Frost

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."-Robert Frost

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."-Robert Frost

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."-Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."-Robert Frost

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."-Robert Frost

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."-Robert Frost

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."-Robert Frost

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."-Robert Frost

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (Quotes from the Book Series)

"About my name, Artemis. You were right in London, it is generally a female name. After the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you."-Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl book #3: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
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John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."-John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections

Anne Frank Quotes

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."-Anne Frank

Charles Dickens Quotes

"After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back anteroom opening from the yard; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind's eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years.…He wandered over them again. He had called them into view, and it was not easy to replace the shroud that had so long concealed them. There were the faces of friends, and foes, and of many that had been almost strangers peering intrusively from the crowd; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old women; there were faces that the grave had changed and closed upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light, to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven. But the old gentleman could recall no one countenance of which Oliver's features bore a trace. So, he heaved a sigh over the recollections he awakened; and being, happily for himself, an absent old gentleman, buried them again in the pages of the musty book."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Georges Duhamel Quotes

"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."-Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain

"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."-Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain

Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them."-Marilyn Ferguson

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, chapter 1 "Economy"

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

"Memory is the receptacle and case of science: and therefore mine being so treacherous, if I know little, I cannot much complain. I know, in general, the names of the arts, and of what they treat, but nothing more. I turn over books; I do not study them. What I retain I no longer recognise as another's; 'tis only what my judgment has made its advantage of, the discourses and imaginations in which it has been instructed: the author, place, words, and other circumstances, I immediately forget; and I am so excellent at forgetting, that I no less forget my own writings and compositions than the rest. I am very often quoted to myself, and am not aware of it. Whoever should inquire of me where I had the verses and examples, that I have here huddled together, would puzzle me to tell him, and yet I have not borrowed them but from famous and known authors, not contenting myself that they were rich, if I, moreover, had them not from rich and honourable hands, where there is a concurrence of authority with reason. It is no great wonder if my book run the same fortune that other books do, if my memory lose what I have written as well as what I have read, and what I give, as well as what I receive."-Michel de Montaigne

Jim Fiebig Quotes

"If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts- a selective memory."-Jim Fiebig

Carl W. Buechner Quotes

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."-Carl W. Buechner

Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."-Carl Gustav Jung

Edward de Bono Quotes

"A memory is anything that happens and does not completely unhappen. The result is some trace which is left. The trace may last for a long time or it may last only for a short time. Information that comes into the brain leaves a trace in the altered behaviour of the nerve cells that form the memory surface. A landscape is a memory surface. The contours of the surface offer an accumulated memory trace of the water that has fallen upon it. The rainfall forms little rivulets which combine into streams and then into rivers. Once the pattern of drainage has been formed then it tends to become more permanent since the rain is collected into the drainage channels and tends to make them deeper. It is the rainfall that is doing the sculpting and yet it is the response of the surface to the rainfall that is organising how the rainfall will do the sculpting."-Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking, 1970