A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote #476990

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

Author: Theophilus London
Quote #80443

The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Quote #497800

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. W

Author: Mario Batali
Quote #483414

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one

Author: John Edwards
Quote #2897

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They

Author: C. JoyBell C.
Quote #369971

Somtimes people run to see if you'll ever come after them. -Joe

Author: Ally Carter
Quote #287871

The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to thro

Author: Michele Bardsley
Quote #14134

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Quote #212098

What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a be

Author: Shannon L. Alder
Quote #355822

What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we w

Author: Leigh Bardugo
Quote #358967

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in

Author: Pat Conroy
Quote #494473

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and

Author: Nate Berkus
Quote #457968

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the

Author: Pope John Paul II
Quote #83691

Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.

Author: Meredith Duran
Quote #277704

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation

Author: Dean Koontz
Quote #166944

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no ma

Author: S.S. Van Dine
Quote #182542

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

Author: Charles M. Blow
Quote #337589

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want he

Author: Sonia Sotomayor
Quote #393411

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be

Author: Hilary Mantel
Quote #331401

Humans don’t just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don’t just eat to surv

Author: Mark Van Steenwyk
Quote #134159

A world of goodness surrounds you.

Author: Unknown
Quote #412659

The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.

Author: Polish proverb
Quote #115964

Alone, all alone in the world, sad and small like a nightingale serenading the infinite. How could a

Author: Cisneros Sandra
Quote #356480

Regarding Christians who feel they have a free pass on being criticized; When the blind worship of a

Author: Kelli Jae Baeli
Quote #288296

...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #3328

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Quote #41300

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Author: Jack Kerouac
Quote #337468

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in

Author: Claudia Gray
Quote #109934

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature'

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #204549

Monkeys play by their sizes. Smaller tasks mostly come with smaller challenges. If you are willing t

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #99116

At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

Author: Lisel Mueller
Quote #87127

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #366919

Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.

Author: Vikrmn
Quote #270558

Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me.

Author: Katie Cotugno
Quote #111103

The practice of mindfulness is one of the most powerful reset buttons we have. When we learn how to

Author: Maia Duerr
Quote #135277

It wasn't normal, it was quite far from normal, but they were hers and she loved everything about th

Author: Vicky Pattison
Quote #304244

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Author: Joan Didion
Quote #456410

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why

Author: June Carter Cash
Quote #149150

Life is a test of courage, It's only worth if you can learn to withstand your most trying times and

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #83380

Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightene

Author: Atsushi Ohkubo
Quote #342428

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quote #240679

The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation

Author: Kim H. Krisco
Quote #16583

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be empe

Author: Zhuangzi
Quote #404681

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Quote #2254

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought ab

Author: Steven Wright
Quote #181108

What is so special about a title? The mode and significance of titles have changed with the change i

Author: Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Quote #106455

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

Author: Darnell Lamont Walker
Quote #91065

I should at least have learned more about how it had come to be that Rema had abandoned her mother,

Author: Rivka Galchen
Quote #93463

Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize ho

Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
Quote #316124

The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.

Author: T.F. Hodge
Quote #286734

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are e

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Quote #134850

Looking at the root of a word is much like looking at the roots of a tree. The foundation is importa

Author: Mary Robinette Kowel
Quote #305390

The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the

Author: Doug Pedersen
Quote #16804

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Author: Rick Ross
Quote #187587

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends

Author: Hosea Ballou
Quote #318094

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no f

Author: Alex Flinn
Quote #92279

It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutual

Author: C.S. Lewis
Quote #15237

When the door of opportunity of your storehouse opens for you, let faith and hope enter first. When

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #477338

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a jou

Author: W. H. Auden
Quote #35031

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

Author: Thiruvalluvar
Quote #213094

Every cell in the body has eyes to see and perceptions to feel.

Author: Debasish Mridha M.D.
Quote #412847

Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!

Author: Goethe
Quote #439711

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great

Author: Steve Ballmer
Quote #404125

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Quote #92068

I don't care what problem you face

Author: Unknown
Quote #30066

I am amazed at how being with him changes everything for me, socially speaking.

Author: Cynthia Hand
Quote #39313

Dying is a universe of its own. 

Author: Arlene Ang
Quote #257376

Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture.

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #33159

There must always be an opposition because the enemy always opposes what the Lord has declared.

Author: Patience Johnson
Quote #396478

Now, clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any h

Author: Poltergeist the movie
Quote #467248

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Author: C. Wright Mills
Quote #390491

Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s th

Author: Kevin Focke
Quote #134871

We had been two sides of the same coin, attached by a force stronger than family or friends. We had

Author: Robin M. King
Quote #275079

Hewas beautiful. I know, it’s not the manliest way to describe a guy, but inmy head, it was the adje

Author: S.C. Stephens
Quote #326374

Since being back in London everything seemed greyer, but clearer. She couldn't explain it. The stran

Author: Harriet Evans
Quote #81522

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Author: John F. Kennedy
Quote #439641

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feel

Author: Simon McBurney
Quote #27038

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Author: Carroll Bryant
Quote #405337

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #288615

Emotions invariably push you to take suboptimal decisions

Author: Unknown
Quote #392225

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the S

Author: Robin Hobb
Quote #374590

Magnus looked away, so as not to see the wreckage. "I wish you luck," he said. "Luck and love." Edmu

Author: Cassandra Clare
Quote #358074

The word “brand” has now taken an individualized and highly personalized shift toward how you are pe

Author: Susan C. Young
Quote #330965

A conscience is easier to swallow on an empty belly, simpler to swing with a broken wrist. The peopl

Author: Jay Kristoff
Quote #148688

He said I was trapped. He had trapped me. I told him to carefully consider what trapped animals do w

Author: J.M. McDermott
Quote #7210

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #283657

Rudy, please, wake up, God**** it, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I

Author: Marcus Zusak
Quote #271939

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh

Author: Erich Fromm
Quote #201894

Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, bec

Author: John Irving
Quote #420053

If at first you succeed don't take any more stupid chances.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #468414

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is

Author: Adam Grant
Quote #98221

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Author: Clive Barker
Quote #163736

(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)

Author: Joanna Russ
Quote #148083

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Quote #51021

The real training is building character for a good conduct.

Author: Unknown
Quote #79789

A lot of blood,A lot of dead people,A lot of victims,A lot of useless battles,A lot of predictable b

Author: Deyth Banger
Quote #168256

We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity t

Author: Jessica Edouard
Quote #499896

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Author: Dalai Lama
Quote #9106

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-ma

Author: Neil Gaiman