Etta's favorite quotes

"But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth."
— Alexander McCall Smith (Friends, Lovers, Chocolate)

7 people liked it

"Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. "
— Raymond Chandler

tags: art

27 people liked it

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. "
— Raymond Chandler

37 people liked it

"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. "
— Raymond Chandler

tags: boiled, hard

36 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

2,911 people liked it

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

tags: humor

1,744 people liked it

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

184 people liked it

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life

245 people liked it

"'I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?'"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

tags: humor, interrogation, police, violence

43 people liked it

"XXI. But Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, This is the Sign I give you:
XXII. If You Do Not See What You Require, Please Ask.

From The Book of Nome, Regulations v. XXI-XXII"
— Terry Pratchett (The Bromeliad Trilogy)

3 people liked it

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

347 people liked it

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
— Willie Nelson

35 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance

567 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life

3,845 people liked it

"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing."
— Charles Bukowski

71 people liked it

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

965 people liked it

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: fanatism

179 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter

17,782 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life

9,321 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

6,534 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship

7,217 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work

5,256 people liked it

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

554 people liked it

"I don't believe in God, but I miss him.
"
— Julian Barnes

3 people liked it

"We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten."
— Julian Barnes (Nothing to Be Frightened Of)

3 people liked it

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
— George Orwell

26 people liked it

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: language, thought

22 people liked it

"Sanity is not statistical."
— George Orwell

34 people liked it

""Two wrongs don't make a right... but three lefts do.""
— Ashleigh Evans

tags: humor

2 people liked it

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