All art is quite useless.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde

Quote #485610

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opini

Author: Unknown
Quote #335495

Friendship is not just about having fun, it’s about supporting each other in time of weakness.

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Quote #98006

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

Author: E.M. Forster
Quote #451860

Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaini

Author: Matt Lauer
Quote #502659

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have

Author: Alberto Fujimori
Quote #152785

Look at the beautiful side of life and be happy.

Author: Unknown
Quote #367874

Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its

Author: Joseph Roach
Quote #18419

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for h

Author: Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Quote #84851

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.And since our oppo

Author: Sarah Palin
Quote #231414

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th

Author: Oswald Chambers
Quote #316587

Even I recognize that I'm not being a proper role model right now. But I need you to understand. As

Author: Ryukishi07
Quote #135921

Remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything,

Author: Rodman Philbrick
Quote #87369

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid

Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Quote #191606

A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in g

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #458797

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rid

Author: Thomas Gibson
Quote #486312

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Author: Herbert Read
Quote #312907

It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.

Author: Ellery Queen
Quote #99383

Churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in c

Author: Stephen R. Covey
Quote #225712

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Author: Antonio Porchia
Quote #4254

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them cou

Author: Kristin Cashore
Quote #315506

Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oce

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #409230

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party

Author: H. L. Mencken
Quote #285722

He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.

Author: Jocelyn White
Quote #71022

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #308626

He rolled his neck, as if to relieve the stress of his shoulders. "Your body is encased in a strong

Author: Jettie Necole
Quote #263802

In that moment, she hated his quiet patient tone, hated the stench of the incense, and hated the bea

Author: Amy J. Murphy
Quote #44775

Don't open up doors you won't have the strength later to close, be mindful of the acts you enable.

Author: Tyconis D. Allison Ty
Quote #138181

Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old,

Author: Anne Rice
Quote #179379

Even not choosing is a choice.

Author: Denise Grover Swank
Quote #297345

I know for sure,to be a leader i have to be a good reader

Author: Faiz Triumph
Quote #472190

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without g

Author: Chris Hadfield
Quote #369460

The miracle of life is faith.

Author: Unknown
Quote #112267

Just because it doesn't happen within a wave of a wand, doesn't mean its not magic.

Author: Polkadot
Quote #356153

No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no

Author: Tupac Shakur
Quote #275603

Never get your sense of worth from outside yourself. Never fall into the trap of thinking that who y

Author: Luminita D. Saviuc
Quote #113718

It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you

Author: Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Quote #408667

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Quote #341658

Tulga Demir and his company Demir Energy, LLC have successfully completed a special journey which ca

Author: Tulga Demir
Quote #182389

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

Author: Alexandre Dumas
Quote #460633

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the Englis

Author: Jamie Campbell Bower
Quote #47724

For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-V

Author: Abhijit Naskar
Quote #395078

The two main problems with signature and heuristic based anti-virus is the mutating hash and the fac

Author: James Scott
Quote #90671

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #443095

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely

Author: Will Self
Quote #9202

Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything but I

Author: Meg Cabot
Quote #105854

When I was a kid my mom would send me off to school each day with the words, ‘Remember: be happy! Th

Author: Alaric Hutchinson
Quote #463337

Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and

Author: Monica Bellucci
Quote #209219

Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape o

Author: Doug Dorst
Quote #337465

I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.”I ran through the door, willing myself to make it down

Author: Claudia Gray
Quote #89562

We can only teach what we have learned

Author: Sandesh limbu
Quote #273801

In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living

Author: Julene Bair
Quote #418706

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence

Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
Quote #382077

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intac

Author: Barney Norris
Quote #501910

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a

Author: Orson Scott Card
Quote #390096

She sticks to the rules, because it's all she's got. It's like her feelings dried up and they were r

Author: Monica Valentinelli
Quote #191730

She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that

Author: Patricia Strefling
Quote #307937

Eventually nothing will matter, this page, where you are sitting, your degree, your job, your money

Author: Sravani Saha Nakhro
Quote #428128

The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing re

Author: Martin McGuinness
Quote #7394

Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm

Author: Cassandra Clare
Quote #369332

99% of businesses fail for one reason. They never start.

Author: David Hieatt
Quote #414819

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

Author: Horace
Quote #212635

Don’t conform. Don’t live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #90692

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

Author: Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Quote #182459

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks witho

Author: Charlotte Brontë
Quote #289390

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even be

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quote #484131

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms

Author: Charlie Haden
Quote #372183

Life is full of possibilities and people should take an advantage of it to pursue success."

Author: Saaif Alam
Quote #339280

My mother used to tell me, “Things always look worse at night.” For the most part, I believe her. Bu

Author: Carolyn Custis James
Quote #112930

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

Author: Allan Lokos
Quote #326139

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

Author: John Corey Whaley
Quote #336682

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

Author: Kameron Hurley
Quote #95294

If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be w

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #139086

The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identifi

Author: Terry Pratchett
Quote #502370

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed u

Author: Rachel Sklar
Quote #93227

The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is totally of life.

Author: Unknown
Quote #189714

Give me one more night to taste the darkWhen wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets rema

Author: Munia Khan
Quote #227861

I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children".

Author: Richard Wright
Quote #428973

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and

Author: Ken Hensley
Quote #88790

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story o

Author: Daniel Quinn
Quote #317159

Maybe, as Mizuko said, we won't even really die, just carry on in the feedback loop we are stuck in.

Author: Olivia Sudjic
Quote #239910

When you live by the demands and supply of life, Life stops being a mystery to you

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #330026

For Thousands To Come To Christ, We Must Employ Kingdom Principles

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #441225

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

Author: Masashi Kishimoto
Quote #277323

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Author: Chris Cleave
Quote #333085

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely th

Author: Burton Rascoe
Quote #388514

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me,

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Quote #83993

I'm not a goose, you're the gooses for crying over nothing

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Quote #242511

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

Author: Jandy Nelson
Quote #208569

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fr

Author: Charles Dickens
Quote #150996

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknow

Author: Toba Beta
Quote #86518

The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #246001

Be life.

Author: A.D. Posey
Quote #379832

To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the leas

Author: Johnny Rich
Quote #198214

For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all who’ve wandered city streetsnot knowing the

Author: Kelli Russell Agodon
Quote #277861

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
Quote #244837

Maybe if she'd invited him into the forest all those years ago, things would have ended differently.

Author: Carrie Ryan
Quote #283390

Life is spirituality.

Author: Unknown
Quote #290396

The best diet is the one you don't know you're on.

Author: Brian Wansink
Quote #81518

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne