That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing. The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Quote:- that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith
Author:- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category:- poetry
Quote:- That would be a ghostwriter worth keeping hold of! But my books are relatively short. A GRRM volume is well over twice as long. I think my main asset is that I write things once. I don’t have the draft draft draft disease that some suffer from. I’ve never deleted a page and rewritten it, some authors rewrite whole chapters or remove or add characters. That’s going to make it a lengthy process.
Author:- Mark Lawrence
Category:- best
Quote:- That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
The Curfew
Author:- Jesse Ball
Category:- hope
Quote:- that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation
Letters from a Stoic
Author:- Seneca
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)
Author:- Charles Bukowski
Category:- poetry
Quote:- That, I said, is the business of the gods, who made us. Yes, but for what? We ought to be good for it, whatever it is. How can we live, until we know? I gazed at him; such desperate words, yet he looked all lit from within. He saw I was paying attention; that was enough to draw him on.
The Bull from the Sea
Author:- Mary Renault
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.
Chain of Gold
Author:- Cassandra Clare
Category:- hope
Quote:- That's how science works. You have to play the game. We need the money, they need the product
Still Standing
Author:- Larry Fort
Category:- science
Quote:- That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science.
It Came from Below the Belt
Author:- Bradley Sands
Category:- science
Quote:- That's life! Sometimes you're on the horse's back, and sometimes it's the horse that's on your back.
Embroideries
Author:- Marjane Satrapi
Category:- Life
Quote:- That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.
Forever . . .
Author:- Judy Blume
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
Author:- Frank O'Hara
Category:- poetry
Quote:- That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood
Author:- Ice-T
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- That's the best way to know anything, although no one ever tells you that. No one ever says, "Just use the expansive feeling in your chest to understand what's true, and what you want, and where to go, and what really matters," because they're too busy forcing you to learn from books that they're choosing, and pointing at whiteboards that they're writing on, and encouraging you to ask questions from curriculums that they've set.
A Room Called Earth
Author:- Madeleine Ryan
Category:- best
Quote:- That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.
Anxious People
Author:- Fredrik Backman
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
Nobody Does It Better
Author:- Cecily von Ziegesar
Category:- best,knowledge
Quote:- That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?
Luminarium
Author:- Alex Shakar
Category:- Relationships