Literature Quotes - Page 3

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.