- "Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words." -- Alice (Closer)
- «Le verbe aimer est un des plus difficile à conjuguer : son passé n’est pas simple, son présent n’est qu’indicatif et son futur est toujours conditionnel.» -- Jean Cocteau Translated: "The verb to love is one of the most difficult to conjugate: its past is not simple, its present is only indicative, and its future is always conditional."
- "Everything you can imagine is real." -- Pablo Picasso
- "We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to." -- W. Somerset Maugham
- "If I have a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus
- "The important thing was to love rather than to be loved." -- W. Somerset Maugham
- "Only the shallow know themselves." -- Oscar Wilde
- "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." -- Jules de Gaultier
- "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." -- Oscar Wilde
- "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty." -- Frank Herbert
- "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde
- "The mystery of life isn't a problem, but a reality to experience." -- Frank Herbert (Rev. Mother Mohiam)
- "Genius is born, not paid." -- Oscar Wilde
- "It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." -- W. Somerset Maugham
- "Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!" -- Matt Frewer
- "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
- "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." -- Mark Twain
- "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." -- Mark Twain
- "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
- "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain
- "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." -- Mark Twain
- "I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it." -- Terry Pratchett
- "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." -- Andy Warhol
- "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." -- C. S. Lewis
- "Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities." -- C.S. Lewis
- "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." -- C.S. Lewis
- "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." -- Oscar Levant
- "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
- "Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis" -- e e cummings
- "Supposing you say some quite ordinary words to me -- 'cellar door', say. From that, I might think of a name, 'Selador', and from that a character a situation begins to grow." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “'But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.'” -- J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might get swept off to." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
- "It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other." -- J.R.R. Tolkien (On the writing of LOTR)
- "She was (and knew she was) my Luthien. I will say no more now. ... For ever (especially when alone) we still met in the woodland glade and went hand in hand many times to escape the shadow of imminent death before out last parting." -- J.R.R. Tolkien (On why we wishes to include the name "Luthien" on Edith's tombstone, written to Christopher Tolkien)
- "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein
- "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." - Maya Angelou
- "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anais Nin
- "It's the creative impulse to look at the seeming chaos of the universe and then to express this chaos in terms of pattern and of love and - perhaps most important of all – joy." - Madeleine L'Engle
- "Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free." - V for Vendetta
- "True art has a mythic quality that speaks of that which was true, is true, and will be true." - Madeleine L'Engle
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