To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Ernest Hemingway

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill

The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

Edward Abbey

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

Kevin J. Anderson

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know

Steven Wright

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Ida P. Rolf

Faith is important to me.

Vera Farmiga

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

Tyra Banks

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.collaborated with Max Horkheimer

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Dial

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true

Melina Marchetta

My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa