To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

Paulo Coelho

Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love

Egor Kraft

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Charles Du Bos, What Is Literatu

Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.

Charles Reade

I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

Kurt Busch

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Agnes Repplier

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Gustave Flaubert

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

Isaac Albeniz

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Marge Piercy

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

My father was in the First World War.

Doris Lessing