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Richard Bach: The more I...

Richard Bach: The more I...

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Source: Illusions:...

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Richard Bach: Here is the...

Richard Bach: Here is the...

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it...

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Olive Schreiner: Everything has two...

Olive Schreiner: Everything has two...

Everything has two sides --the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

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John Oliver Killens: The Negro loves...

John Oliver Killens: The Negro loves...

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be...

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Horace Walpole: Imagination was given...

Horace Walpole: Imagination was given...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for...

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Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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William H Gass: Only the slow...

William H Gass: Only the slow...

Only the slow reader ... will notice the odd crowd of images flier, butcher, seal which have gathered to comment on...

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Rudolph Fisher: The rhythm persisted,...

Rudolph Fisher: The rhythm persisted,...

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began...

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Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...

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Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Source: National Velvet/...

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James Agee: He used this...

James Agee: He used this...

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of...

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James Agee: God doesn't believe...

James Agee: God doesn't believe...

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Source: In The Book of Southern Wisdom, by...

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Rutherford B Hayes: He serves his...

Rutherford B Hayes: He serves his...

He serves his party best who serves his country best.

Source: Inaugural address, 5...

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Chester A Arthur: I may be...

Chester A Arthur: I may be...

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

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James Monroe: National honor is...

James Monroe: National honor is...

National honor is national property of the highest value.

Source: First Inaugural...

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Richard Cobden: I believe it...

Richard Cobden: I believe it...

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the...

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Richard Cobden: Luck relies on...

Richard Cobden: Luck relies on...

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Marcus Garvey: Progress is the...

Marcus Garvey: Progress is the...

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Source: Garvey and Garveyism,...

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: We have accomplished...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: We have accomplished...

We have accomplished something very significant, and it's our responsibility, yours and mine, on behalf of our...

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Elizabeth II: I should like...

Elizabeth II: I should like...

I should like to be a horse.

Source: When asked about her ambitions when a child;...

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