Quote of the Day

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

George R.R. Martin

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

J.K. Rowling

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Mark Twain

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Joseph Conrad

People, generally, suck.

Christopher Moore

You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.

Kay Robertson

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Louis L'Amour

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.

Harvey Mackay

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Jonas Salk

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

W. H. Auden

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Addams

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

Sharron Angle

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare