"My will can control anything thatâ€™s empty."

-- Michael Ende

“For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.100, Open Road Media
“We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.”
“People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'”
“It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.”
“I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!”
“There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.”

Source : "37signals" with Matt Linderman, 37signals.com. May 2011.
“We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.”
“It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 561), 1895.

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