Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] - Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536), Adagia (III, IV, 96)
- When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It" -- Ch. 3
- Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Death of a Salesman
- In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
|