is no substitute for hard work.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Allen Ginsberg
Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.What did he die of?Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!
Oscar Wilde
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Christopher Morley
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
Tanith Lee
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
Ivan Lendl
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Stephen Fry
I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
Carre Otis
Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
Abu Bakr
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty menWalk under his huge legs and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.This is probably the source for: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caes
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan