Category: writer
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
Marianne Williamson
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I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, ‘Why not me?’
Marianne Williamson
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people’s wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.
Arundhati Roy
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf
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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It’s like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
Paulo Coelho
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf