Heart Quote by Alan Bradley

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my…

— Paul Theroux

“Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction…

— Javier Marías

“The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives…

— Maya Angelou

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used…

— Marge Piercy

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically…

— Mindy Kaling

Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the…

— Marcus Aurelius

I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners…

— Henry Grattan Guinness

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members…

— Ralph Adams Cram

Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at…

— Virginia Woolf

When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in…

— Washington Irving

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

— Friedrich Nietzsche