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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
170 people liked it

"He made me love him without looking at me."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: love
131 people liked it

"Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are! (Jane to Mr. Rochester-Ch. 23)"
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

tags: chapter, xxiii
83 people liked it

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

38 people liked it

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
— Charlotte Brontë

47 people liked it

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

tags: heartbreak, integrity, love
48 people liked it

""She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.""
— Jerry Spinelli

tags: stargirl
68 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,810 people liked it

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

tags: dreams, music
816 people liked it

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: blues, god, life, music
556 people liked it

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
— Leopold Stokowski

tags: music
174 people liked it

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

tags: humour, telekinetics
1,004 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
1,003 people liked it

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

363 people liked it

"And so it goes..."
— Kurt Vonnegut

383 people liked it

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

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,450 people liked it

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor
1,381 people liked it

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning
996 people liked it

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, wit
1,465 people liked it

"Don't Panic"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: gets, me, some, things, through, weird
504 people liked it

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: british, commentary, fiction, humor, science, social, thumb, towel
427 people liked it

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: humor, science
243 people liked it

""What happens if I press this button?" -- "I WOULDN'T!"
*DING*
"Oh"
"What happened?"
"A light came on saying, please do not press this button again""
— Douglas Adams

tags: temptation
65 people liked it

"Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To."
— Douglas Adams

69 people liked it

"Ow! My brains!"
— Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels & One Story)

tags: humor, zaphod
45 people liked it

"The answer to life, the universe, and everything, is 42"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

67 people liked it

"-and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere…and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together guys.-Galaxy Radio"
— Douglas Adams

36 people liked it

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour, life
28 people liked it

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."
— Douglas Adams

tags: music, universe
38 people liked it

"We're sorry for the inconvenience."
— Douglas Adams

tags: guide, hitchhiker-s, humor
8 people liked it

"After which, the universe will explode for your pleasure"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

4 people liked it

"Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: humor
17 people liked it

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dorian, gray
108 people liked it

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselssly into the past."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: book, inspirational
266 people liked it

"Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

24 people liked it

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

51 people liked it

"Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening, and Selected Stories)

34 people liked it

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

24 people liked it

"The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant."
— Kate Chopin

8 people liked it

"And I can see Russia from my house!"
— Tina Fay as Sarah Palin on SNL

tags: alaska, dumb, funny, gop, obama, palin, sarah, snl
101 people liked it

"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
— Barack Obama

tags: politics
94 people liked it

"To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too."
— Barack Obama

tags: obama, president, unity
7 people liked it

"You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena."
— Jon Stewart

tags: democracy, government, humor, politics
134 people liked it

"(on fox news).... it's like watching a Disney movie about the news."
— Stephen Colbert

29 people liked it

"Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult:If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes."
— Stephen Colbert (I Am America: And So Can You!)

31 people liked it

"Amy Poehler as Katie Couric and Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.

Katie Couric: What lessons have you learned from Iraq and how specifically would you spread democracy abroad?

Sarah Palin: Katie, I’d like to use one of my lifelines.

Katie Couric: I’m sorry?

Sarah Palin: I want to phone a friend.

Katie Couric: You don’t have any lifelines.

Sarah Palin: Well, in that case I’m just gonna have to get back to ya."
— Saturday Night Live

15 people liked it

"Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton on SNL: "I don't agree with the Bush Doctrine."
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin: "I... don't know what that is...""
— Amy Poehler and Tina Fey

16 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,105 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
18,671 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,419 people liked it

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