If you don’t have God in your life, you have to fill up on something. And you usually reach for the four great substitutes, the classical addictions: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. So you try to fill yourself up. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred. Philip Roth Read Quote
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins Read Quote
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there’s still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard. Seth Shostak Read Quote
Write every day; never give up; it’s supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can’t look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take. J. R. Moehringer Read Quote
I’ve never been married and I’ve no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious. Francesca Annis Read Quote
Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff. Blake Lively Read Quote
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Marcus Tullius Cicero Read Quote
