To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Penelope Fitzgerald
I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
- Margaret Mead
I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
- Amy Hempel
- Amy Hempel
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gustave Flaubert
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Selma Lagerlöf
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
- James Thurber
- James Thurber
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!
- Ira Gershwin
That you should care for me!
- Ira Gershwin
One day in the country
Is worth a month in town
- Christina Rossetti
Is worth a month in town
- Christina Rossetti
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rainer Maria Rilke