When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925