"Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful."
- Germany Kent
"How can I shut downIf you don't open up??"
- Ana Claudia Antunes
"Mr Wisdom,' said the girl who had led him into the presence.'Ah,' said Howard Saxby, and there was a pause of perhaps three minutes, during which his needles clicked busily. 'Wisdom, did she say?''Yes..."
- P.G. Wodehouse
"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the bree..."
- William Wordsworth
"The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person who can never be ..."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man.....poetry and fiction are based upon woman's love, and the movements of history are main..."
- Chauncey Mitchell DePew
"Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting pleasure in cruelty and suffering, while the gr..."
- Margaret Irwin
"Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed."
- Pico Iyer
"The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow..."
- Helen Bevington
"Do you know what sentence of his (Wordsworth) I admire the most? It is "The bright day is done, and we are for the dark." I wish I'd known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, pl..."
- Mary Ann Shaffer