Quotes about Author
She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her body while she was asleep. There's no spell can cure it.
— Isabel Allende
You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.
— Isabel Allende
I think you'll see that my life story is worthy of a novel, because of my sins more than my virtues.
— Isabel Allende
He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.
— Isabel Allende
If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,
— Abraham Lincoln
'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
— Harry S. Truman
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
— Anonymous
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.
— Nathaniel Howe
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
— Robert Frost
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.
— Bill Gates
I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'
— Timothy Keller