I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Then I wondered, what if?What if he kissed me? What if he told me I was beautiful? What if he told me he loved me?What would I say in return?

Markelle Grabo

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

Jose Carreras

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Ann Richards

Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.Von to Silver

Adrian Phoenix

Once a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That's not a conspiracy theory, it's history.

James Dye

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Mark Haddon

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

Steven Adler

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Amelia Barr

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Robert Mapplethorpe