Quote of the Day
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland
Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
Jose Manuel Barroso
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
J.K. Rowling
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.
John Berger
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde