Marilyn Monroe’s Quotations !

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• It's all make believe, isn't it?
• I restore myself when I'm alone.
• Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
• I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
• I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
• If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
• Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
• It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
• The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
• I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
• Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
• A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
• I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
• If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
• I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
• A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
• I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
• Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
• It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
• I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
• I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
• Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
• I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
• Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
• Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for yoursoul.
• The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
• First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
• Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
• To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
• No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
• The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
• I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
• It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
• My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
• I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
• Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
• I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
• I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
• There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. 

Happy Birthday Joseph Conrad !

Joseph Conrad

Today is the birthday of a Polish novelist Joseph Conrad (03 December 1857 – 03 August 1924), who wrote in English, after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Appreciated early on by literary cognoscenti, his fiction and nonfiction have gained an almost prophetic cachet in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• A word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
• A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns.
• Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.''
• It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the inca...

Happy Birthday James Agee !

James Rufus Agee

Today is the birthday of an American author, poet, journalist, screenwriter and film critic James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955). In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• God doesn't believe in the easy way.
• This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
• The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
• We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
• It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. 

Happy Birthday Voltaire !

Voltaire

Today is the birthday of a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher Voltaire (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws with harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures (along with Montesquieu, John Locke, Richard Price, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Émilie du Châtelet) whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• A witty saying proves nothing.
• Love truth, and pardon error.
• Regimen is superior to medicine.
• Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
• Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
• History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
• The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
• The secret of being boring is to say everything.
• Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
• God is always on the side of the big battalions.
• Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
• Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
• Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
• There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
• All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
• The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Happy Birthday René Magritte !

René Magritte

Today is the birthday of a Belgian surrealist artist René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967). He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
• Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
• We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
• If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
• Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
• Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
• The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
• To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
• My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

Happy Birthday Georgia O'Keeffe !

Georgia O'Keeffe

Today is the birthday of an American artist Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986). She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities. Beginning in 1929, when she first began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• Marks on paper are free—free speech—press—pictures all go together I suppose.
• I hate flowers—I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
• I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
• One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
• Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, "Is this mine?... Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?"... I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

Happy Birthday Margaret Mitchell !

Margaret Mitchell

Today is the birthday of an American author and journalist Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949). One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind. For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. These additional works have enabled scholars and the public to more fully comprehend the richness and depth of Margaret Mitchell's writing. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• My dear, I don't give a damn.
• After all, tomorrow is another day.
• Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
• There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.
• The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
• I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
• Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
• What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
• The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso !

Pablo Picasso

Today is the birthday of a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), who spent most of his adult life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are commonly regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• I do not seek. I find.
• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
• Everything you can imagine is real.
• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
• Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
• Action is the foundational key to all success.
• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
• All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
• Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
• An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. 

Happy Birthday Michael Crichton !

John Michael Crichton

Today is the birthday of an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008), best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at #1 in television, film, and book sales (with ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure, respectively). Michael Crichton's literary works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. His novels epitomize the techno-thriller genre of literature, often exploring technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. He was the author of, among others, Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next (the final book published before his death), Pirate Latitudes (published November 24, 2009), and a final unfinished techno-thriller, Micro, which was published in November 2011. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• No one escapes from life alive.
• I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
• It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
• The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
• Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
• God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
• If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
• Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
• It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.
• Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Happy Birthday Mario Puzo !

Mario Gianluigi Puzo

Today is the birthday of an Italian American author and screenwriter Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999), known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• Every family has bad memories.
• Friendship and money : oil and water.
• Even the strongest man needs friends.
• I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
• I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
• Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
• Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
• I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
• I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman. Blood is a big expense.
• A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
• The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
• Certainly he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not communists.
• Look, we are all reasonable men here. We don't have to give assurances, as if we were lawyers.
• I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
• It doesn't make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand. But your business is a little dangerous.
• Give this to Clemenza. I want reliable people, people who won't get carried away. I mean, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker says.
• Now, listen. I want somebody good, and I mean very good, to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hand.
• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
• Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
• Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
• He was ... a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

The 51 Greatest Quotes About Poetry !

1. Language is fossil poetry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. All poetry is misrepresentation. - Jeremy Bentham
3. Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. - Joseph Roux
4. Poetry is, at bottom, a criticism of life. - Matthew Arnold
5. Poetry fettered fetters the human race. - William Blake
6. A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost
7. Poetry : the best words in the best order. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
8. Immature poets imitate ; mature poets steal. - T. S. Eliot
9. We love the things we love for what they are. - Robert Frost
10. You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo
11. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
12. Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. - James Branch Cabell
13. To break the pentameter, that was the first heave. - Ezra Pound
14. You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. - John Adams
15. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. - Edgar Allen Poe
16. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost
17. Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. - Philip Larkin
18. I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. - A. E. Housman
19. There is a pleasure in poetic pains / which only poets know. - William Cowper
20. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G.K. Chesterton
21. Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. - Denis Diderot
22. Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. - e. e. cummings
23. Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. - Dennis Gabor
24. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. - Kahlil Gibran
25. Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. - Carl Sandburg
26. Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. - Adrian Mitchell
27. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. - William Hazlitt
28. Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen
29. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. - Emily Dickinson
30. A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. - Robert Graves
31. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost
32. Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. - Stephen Spender
33. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
34. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry. - S.T.Coleridge
35. I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. - Kenneth Rexroth
36. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci
37. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. - William Wordsworth
38. The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, and then you listen for the reverberation. - James Fenton
39. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. - W.H. Auden
40. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
41. Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. - Don Marquis
42. Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing. - W.S. Merwin
43. Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. - Samuel Johnson
44. Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. - Miguel de Cervantes
45. A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. - Salman Rushdie
46. You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. - Bob Dylan
47. Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. - John Keats
48. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
49. Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes. - Henry David Thoreau
50. I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem. - Lucille Clifton
51. Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. - Dylan Thomas

Happy Birthday Gore Vidal !

Gore Vidal

Today is the birthday of an American writer Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born as Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012), known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. He was also known for his patrician manner, Transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. His most widely regarded social novel was Myra Breckinridge; his best known historical novels included Julian, Burr, and Lincoln. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. Vidal always rejected the terms of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" as inherently false, claiming that the vast majority of individuals had the potential to be pansexual. His screenwriting credits included the epic historical drama Ben-Hur (1959), into which he claimed he had written a "gay subplot." Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture. At the time of his death he was the last of a generation of American writers who had served during World War II, including J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, and Joseph Heller. Perhaps best remembered for his caustic wit, he referred to himself as a "gentleman bitch" and has been described as the 20th century's answer to Oscar Wilde. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• A triumph of the embalmer's art.
• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
• A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
• Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
• Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
• All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
• There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
• I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
• Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
• A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
• Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
• Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
• without which literature cannot be made.
• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
• To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
• The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
• Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
• On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
• As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
• There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
• If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
• I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
• Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we—the white race—have become the yellow man's burden. Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Happy Birthday Truman Capote !

Truman Capote

Today is the birthday of an American author Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984), known as Truman Capote. His short stories, novels, plays and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.
• Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
• If you feed a man, and wash his clothes, and borne his children, you and that man are married, that man is yours. If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stoves, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.
• It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.
• People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them.... You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

Happy Birthday H. G. Wells !

Herbert George Wells

Today is the birthday of an English author Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games. Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction". Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
• If we don't end war, war will end us.
• You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog.
• I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
• Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
• He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
• You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
• Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
• This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
• The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.
• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
• Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
• I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.
• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
• It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
• There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.
• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Happy Birthday Danielle Steel !

Danielle Steel

Today is the birthday of an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas, Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein Steel (born August 14, 1947), better known as Danielle Steel. Steel has sold more than 800 million copies of her books (as of 2005) worldwide and is the fourth best selling writer of all time, and is currently the bestselling author alive. Her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks and 22 have been adapted for television. Presenting some Quotations : Being Poet

• I'm astonished by my success.
• I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
• I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
• It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.
• If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
• I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.
• I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
• I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
• My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
• A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
• In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
• People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
• My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
• I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
• A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
• I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
• I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.
• It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.
• Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down.
• I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
• I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
• The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.