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"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
16,552 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,478 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,485 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,886 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,820 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,630 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,794 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,877 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,846 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,697 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
4,013 people liked it

"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."
— Nick Hornby

tags: books
170 people liked it

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

tags: books, humor
216 people liked it

"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: books
104 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
3,060 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
1,837 people liked it

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

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
579 people liked it

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: mind
340 people liked it

"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police
268 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
254 people liked it

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."
— Terry Pratchett

205 people liked it

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

222 people liked it

"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

118 people liked it

"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
— Nick Hornby

tags: music
512 people liked it

"What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don’t know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they’ve been listening to the sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity: A Novel)

71 people liked it

"...I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

tags: characterization, dark, fiction, gordon, humor, insight, personal, rob
49 people liked it

"There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby."
— Nick Hornby (Slam)

16 people liked it

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."
— Roald Dahl

tags: books, kids, readers, reading
107 people liked it

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
— Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
256 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness
1,783 people liked it

"Reading is sexy"
— Rory Gilmore

10 people liked it

"Every now and then, I'm seized with an overwhelming urge to say something like "As Marcel Proust would say.." but of course I have no idea what Marcel Proust would say so I don't even go there. I could do, uh, "As Micheal Crichton would say.." but it's not exactly the same you know. "
— Lorelai Gilmore

tags: -p, all, at, literary, not
3 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,582 people liked it

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational
1,188 people liked it

"Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children."
— Walt Disney Company

104 people liked it

"All children, except one, grow up."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

57 people liked it

""...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires..." (The Great Gatsby)"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

9 people liked it

"There is eternal influence and power in motherhood."
— Julie B. Beck

tags: motherhood
7 people liked it

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
— Abraham Lincoln

45 people liked it

"Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords."
— Richard Brautigan

28 people liked it

"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat."
— Alex Levine

20 people liked it

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. "
— Anna Morrow Lindbergh

tags: communication, stimulation, talk
19 people liked it

"The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks."
— Tom Stoppard (Arcadia: A Play)

9 people liked it

"Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!"
— Terry Pratchett (Monstrous Regiment)

tags: addiction, coffee, humor
9 people liked it

"Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world."
— Thomas Jefferson

6 people liked it

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Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. "
— Jessi Lane Adams

4 people liked it

"Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. "
— Drew Sirtors

5 people liked it

"I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism."
— Abigail Reynolds (Pemberley by the Sea)

4 people liked it

"Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices."
— Pearl Cleage (Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot)

11 people liked it

"Tighten your fingers around a teaspoon, feel its metal pulse, its mistrustful warning. How it hurts to refuse a spoon, to say no to a door, to deny everything habit has licked to a suitable smoothness. How much simpler to accept the easy request of the spoon, to use it, to stir the coffee."
— Julio Cortázar

3 people liked it

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