The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that s...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Life is short, but its ills make it seem long
PUBLILIUS SYRUS William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there ...
CARINE ROITFELD Ay me! sad hours seem long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Random House takes no pleasure in defending a legal action that it believes is without merit and we ...
GAIL REBUCK O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Set a goal you need to reach during the day. Plan something and complete it, it will bring you pleas...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
CLIVE CUSSLER A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
JASON STATHAM For there's nae luck about the house;
There's nae luck at aw;
There's little pleasure in the h...
WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
GENE FOWLER Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
T. BOONE PICKENS Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
BOONE PICKENS She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and ...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
PAULO COELHO The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
AMY BLOOM O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
BOONE PICKENS I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
AARON BURR The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure
my business.
AARON BURR Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ...
HELEN KELLER Even those odds seem a bit short to me,
MORRISSEY Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one en...
LUDWIG VON MISES Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with ...
DAN MILLMAN Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard,...
ERIC BROWN Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure or...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very h...
ERIC BROWN You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
RAY BRADBURY The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
SHARON WEIL When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespea...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident
CHARLES LAMB Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; othe...
ANUJ SOMANY The purpose of the cyclic nature of pleasure and pain in life is to regain the inner power of the mi...
ANUJ SOMANY Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
CAITLYN LAIDLAW Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM “Your actions create peace, joy, happiness and feeling of accomplishment. Ready made Success could...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greate...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound;...
DOROTHY PARKER Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...
CLIVE BARKER After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS