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8803 Writer Quotes

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Flower Vase Smiles Longer
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Art Nature Speeded-up God
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Expression Words Never Coincide
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Laughter Regional Smile Extends
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Women Make Poets Children
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Family Court Justice Shuts
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

God Waiting Admit Importunate
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
Women Eat Talking Men
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Woman Keep Quiet Right
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Mind Distracted Sorts Heart
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Sometimes Laugh Ear Impossible
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Man Laugh Votes Measure
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Write Half Saw Believed
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I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Speak Listener Retains Words
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My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

Heart Beats Breathe
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The true sweetness of wine is one flavor
True Sweetness Wine Flavor
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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

Germ Story New Simple
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Talent What You Possess
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Lose Your Mind Grow
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Fear Dependent Young Child
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I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.

Never Cease Amazed Friends
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All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

Guarantee Long Searching Happiness
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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

Power Fear Man Created
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You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

Think Poor Alternative Acting
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You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total surrender.

You Ready Accept Complete
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It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.

State Hopelessness Movement Direction
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The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

Plain Problem Create Feel
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
Never Slow Capture Life
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A person focused on achieving his/her goals will find life more fulfilling. Keep glowing.

Focused Goals Life Fulfilling
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When you watch my movies and smile, that’s a form of therapy because you’re relaxed watching me. I also teach through my movies, highlighting the difference between right and wrong.

Movies Smile Therapy Right
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
Two Spreading Light Candle
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Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Life Tightrope Feather Bed
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Stop Happy Pretty Good
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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend.

Real Loneliness Living Kind
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Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Good Conversation Ideas Worth
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Friend Life Separate Beloved
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Care Life Easy Interesting
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In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Reality Lived Hieroglyphic World
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Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Remember Help Loving Me
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What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Lily Craved Darkness Enfolding
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence Variously Shaded Speech
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I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Swear Hear Hundred=years Meet
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The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Real-marriage True Minds Possess
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Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
Nothing Perplexing Man Woman
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It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
Easy Despise World Habitable-region
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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Future Suddenly Unrolled
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And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

Sit Beside Me Visions
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They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Alike Tongues Safe Remember
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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Half Trouble Life Pretending
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To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
Generous Firm Wisdom
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