- Silence is golden. (I don't know the author, not sure if there is one.)

 - "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people" (Thomas Mann. Taken from Pat Vecchio's door on the second floor of Murphy building on St. Bonaventure University campus )

 - "... it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." (Sissy Spacek, adressing independent filmmakers. Taken from "Oscar's Home Is Smaller, but the Night Still Thrills Fans" by Nick Madigan, New York Times, Mon. March 25, 2002)

 - "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting..." ( from "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho)

 - "... the language of enthusuasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired." ( from "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho)

 - "I travel for the thrill of not knowing where I¦m going to be that night and the certainty of knowing it's a place I've never been before." (Peter Elliott. Taken from Lonely Planet Comet newsletter)
 
 

Why people collect quotes ? Or rather why different individuals take down different quotes ?
 It is that special meaning, that different people give to different words. The same quote for me and for you has different significance. This quote touches my inner thoughts. The quote you took down touches your hidden desires, but may have no sinificance for me what so ever. That's why, I think, quote collections, that are so numerous in the Internet, have to be named after their collector. That's how, this collection is Olga Zhurzhenko's collection.

Quote collecting can even become a separate genre of the literature. Think about it. Series of quotes can represent a personality, if the reader took time to figure out what made this person take down this particular quote. What thoughts evoked this line? What desires are represented by these words?