Shakespeare Seasonal Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves ... — Henry David Thoreau

I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin. — Aldous Huxley

No, when a king forgets who he is, he looks for himself in the rubble of conquered cities. He is haunted by a bottomless pit in his soul, and he will pour the blood of nations into it until the pit swallows the man himself. — Andrew Peterson

The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It's more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again. — Brad Warner

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. — Oscar Wilde

Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter! — Charles Lee

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails. — Lord Byron

Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway. — Mark Twain

As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction. — Rhonda Byrne

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. — Evan Esar

I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. — Philip Roth

I have always been an admirer, I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it. — Thomas Mann

I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but ... — Jacques Derrida

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page. — Quentin Tarantino