Ouida Quotes
English - Novelist January 7, 1839 - January 25, 1908

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ouida

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Ouida

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
Ouida

Petty laws breed great crimes.
Ouida


Charles Peguy Quotes
French - Philosopher January 7, 1873 - September 4, 1914

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Charles Peguy

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
Charles Peguy

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles Peguy

Freedom is a system based on courage.
Charles Peguy

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
Charles Peguy

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
Charles Peguy


Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
American - Dramatist January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960


Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
Zora Neale Hurston

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston

No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston

People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Zora Neale Hurston

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always love the people who make em.
Zora Neale Hurston

There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston

It costs you something to do good!
Zora Neale Hurston

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston

I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston


William Peter Blatty Quotes
American - Writer Born: January 7, 1928

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
William Peter Blatty

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
William Peter Blatty

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.
William Peter Blatty

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.
William Peter Blatty

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
William Peter Blatty

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
William Peter Blatty

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.
William Peter Blatty

I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
William Peter Blatty

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
William Peter Blatty

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
William Peter Blatty

I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.
William Peter Blatty


Kenny Loggins Quotes
American - Musician Born: January 7, 1948

Running away will never make you free.
Kenny Loggins

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
Kenny Loggins

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
Kenny Loggins

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
Kenny Loggins

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
Kenny Loggins

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
Kenny Loggins

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
Kenny Loggins

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
Kenny Loggins

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
Kenny Loggins

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
Kenny Loggins

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.
Kenny Loggins

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.
Kenny Loggins

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.
Kenny Loggins

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
Kenny Loggins

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
Kenny Loggins

I must let go of my need for the world to love me.
Kenny Loggins

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.
Kenny Loggins

I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
Kenny Loggins

I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.
Kenny Loggins

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.
Kenny Loggins

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.
Kenny Loggins

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
Kenny Loggins

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
Kenny Loggins

Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based?
Kenny Loggins

I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
Kenny Loggins

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
Kenny Loggins

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.
Kenny Loggins

It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.
Kenny Loggins

I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this.
Kenny Loggins

That's an old saying I just made up.
Kenny Loggins

Courage is always rewarded.
Kenny Loggins

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.
Kenny Loggins