Authors From The United States

"She was the storm I couldn’t sail through. The door I couldn’t kick open. The silence that swallowed my name whole."

"I’ve built a life around the absence and it doesn’t collapse when I say your name. It just trembles a little."

"I don’t need to be the love of your life. Just the one who didn’t let you fall alone."

"Does grace have a breaking point?"

"If You are my Shepherd, why does the void mouth my name like an old hymn?"

"I’m not asking for a reply... All I want now is to love you quietly. Without interruption. Without guilt."

"I loved you too deeply to ever take it back. And if this was wrong, I’d still do it again. Because loving you was mine. And it made me real."

"You didn’t break my heart. You just never held it. You just stood close enough for me to hand it over and far enough to let it hit the ground."

"You don’t have to love me back. I already forgave you for the leaving you haven’t done yet."

"I’m not asking for the full revelation, just a glimpse to know I’m not lost."

"I am the ghost that refuses to be buried, the hymn that rises through clenched teeth."

"They made me a weapon, then feared the sharpness of my edges."

"Why do my feet ache for the cliff’s edge when a whisper could have held me still?"

"I do not write for permission. I do not exist for approval. I am the dream and the dreamer."

"I learned to walk the tightrope between threat and survival, to smile when I wanted to scream, to fight when I longed to be held."

"The kingdom I thought I built has fallen, but from its ashes, something new might rise."

"If someone calls me authentic, that’s the biggest compliment they could give to me"

"If it’s the right thing to do, you push your qualms aside and you do it"

"You need ‘rough riders’ in your life – the people who will shoot straight with you. They can call bullshit on you, they can tell you how great you are"

"We get so stuck on our own viewpoints — we need help to be shown other options"

"Go with your gut but use your brain"

"Leadership does not come from the top down,Gaddis said. It comes from the bottom up"

"I try to find people who shore up my weaknesses"

"Hard work, knowing my personal power and working with an extremely talented and dedicated team is a big part of my success…After reinventing myself many times over, it is a great honor to be on the cover of Texas CEO Magazine with the hopes of inspiring other businessmen and -women to take big leaps in their lives and careers"

"Body language makes up about 40% of natural language: This can be automatically generated."

"Videos do an excellent job of conveying the importance of body language. A great video to watch is The History Channel’s Secrets of Body Language."

"As designers of robots (or avatars) we need to consider these statistics and consider how to integrate body language into natural language communication. Therefor Geppetto Labs has built a platform to automatically generate body language and coordinate it with what a robot (or avatar) is saying."

"So if we want people to engage emotionally with robots, or avatars (or any other kind of character that is rigged up to an NLP system), we need to consider using body language as part of that system. We humans are hardwired that way."

"I see no reason why computer-created music cannot move us to tears, find roots in our cultures...as much as any music composed in more traditional ways. As heretical to some as these thoughts may be, I believe them profoundly."

"I felt strongly that the work was worth something,” “I don’t worry about what people think of me.”"

"Creativity does not originate from a vacuum."

"“I remember thinking, ‘I’m not a white person and I’m not an Indian. What am I? Even at that young age, it somehow freed me from following cultural stereotypes. I was me, and it felt very good."

"Realizing that I didn’t belong has probably fostered my lifelong ability to not be concerned about those who attack me for being independent,” “I follow my own calling.”"

"The works have delighted, angered, provoked, and terrified those who have heard them. I do not believe that the composers and audiences of the future will have the same reactions. Ultimately, the computer is just a tool with which we extend our minds."

"It made me appreciate what humans were capable of."

"Every limitation we place on the potential of machines is a limitation we indirectly place on ourselves."

"To me the change called "death", and which is better understood as transition, is merely a change from one form of physical, material and psychological existence to another. I believe the change is identical in importance and consequence to that change which takes place when the embryo of a newly born child takes its first breath and becomes a living entity on this earth plane. I do not attempt to say how, or what form or type of existence the individuality, personality, character or mentality of a human being may be like after this so-called transition, but of one thing I am convinced, and that is that this transition which we call "death" does not end the whole of our existence nor affect our existence except in its mode of physical, mental, spiritual and psychological expression. Consequently I have no fear of death except that I would not like to have it occur suddenly before I could prepare papers and other matters that would concern myself or my family after my inability to function any further here in this particular form."

"More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution."

"We are impressed with the fact that the physical body did not take on life but that the invisible, infinite soul took on a physical form by the uniting of the breath with the body. Even the ancients were impressed with this significance, and in their philosophies, which gradually evolved into theological principles, we are constantly reminded of the fact that man is essentially a soul clothed with a body, and not a body animated with a soul."

"In order to evolve and become what nature and the Divine intended us to be, we must attune ourselves with this process of constant change. We must become a part of the great parade of onward marchers which constitutes the army of evolution throughout nature. The moment people cease to be of that onward movement, they do not stand still. They simply retrograde, because nature and all humanity pass on and leave them standing, as it were, or moving backward until in a very short time they find themselves among the primitive ones, among the undeveloped, the unprogressive, the ignorant, and the sufferers."

"Not everything I suggest is going to work for everyone, but that's just the way writing is. There is no wrong or right way to write. My way is certainly not the only way, and may even be the wrong way for you. That might sound strange, but I know first-hand how frustrating it is to be told "You must do this" when "doing that" is more your style"

"The service of his mistress was the glory and occupation of a knight, and her smiles, bestowed at once by affection and gratitude, were held out as the recompense of his well-directed valor. Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns."

"Alas! for shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! but it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward."

"The first writer who disclaimed a belief in the existence of the Phoenix, was Sir Thomas Browne, in his “Vulgar Errors”, published in 1646. He was replied to a few years later by Alexander Ross, who says, in answer to the objection of the Phoenix so seldom making his appearance, “His instinct teaches him to keep out of the way of the tyrant of the creation, man, for if he were to be got at, some wealthy glutton would surely devour him, though there were no more in the world”."

"He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them."

"What have you to do with warlike weapons, saucy boy? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Behold the conquest I have won by means of them over the vast serpent who stretched his poisonous body over acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapons." Venus's boy heard these words, and rejoined, "Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you."

"Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation."

"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make us happier and better can be called useful, then we claim that epithet for our subject. For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."

"... those refinements of civility which formed what was in that age called courtesy."

"The Greeks believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country occupying the middle of it, the central point being either Mount Olympus, the abode of the gods, or Delphi, so famous for its oracle."