Geoffrey's quotes

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"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
10,337 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
18,109 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
11,992 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,166 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,801 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,954 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,841 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,326 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,875 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,675 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
5,664 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,619 people liked it

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

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,318 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,610 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,385 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,269 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,952 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,783 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,785 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,551 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,269 people liked it

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,093 people liked it

"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

tags: alanna, amusing, favorite, philosophy, pierce, tamora
195 people liked it

"Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: jousting, kel
87 people liked it

""Kel: He says he's changed.
Neal: I suppose he could have changed, I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
Kel: You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up.
Neal: We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring.""
— Tamora Pierce (Page)

tags: kel, neal, page
73 people liked it

"I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: apple, daine, numair, speaker, staghorn, tree, trystan, wolf
63 people liked it

"When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: knighthood, raoul
62 people liked it

"A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
- I'm not sure"
— Tamora Pierce (The Immortals)

64 people liked it

"I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'."
— Tamora Pierce

51 people liked it

""When in doubt, shoot the wizard.""
— Tamora Pierce

61 people liked it

"But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head."
— Tamora Pierce

47 people liked it

"Kel grinned, but said "You know, orgres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound," he admitted cheerfully. "I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself."
Kel groaned and punched him in the shoulder."
— Tamora Pierce (First Test)

tags: kel, neal
47 people liked it

"Someday I must read this scholar everyone. He seems to have written so much-all of it wrong.
-Daine"
— Tamora Pierce (Emperor Mage)

tags: everyone, humor, scholar
49 people liked it

"I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch."
— Tamora Pierce (First Test)

tags: nealan
42 people liked it

"You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: boys, daine, fighting, misogyny, owned-
38 people liked it

"Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: cooper, gentry, george, humour
39 people liked it

"And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau "
— Tamora Pierce (Squire)

36 people liked it

"You haven't been bit till a dragon does it."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: carthak, daine, dragon, kitten
40 people liked it

"He's just rather more lively than most fossils."
— Tamora Pierce

35 people liked it

"I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: neal
37 people liked it

"Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!"
— Tamora Pierce

tags: alanna, balm, healing, neal
31 people liked it

"'You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.'"
— Tamora Pierce (The Realms of the Gods)

24 people liked it

"Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello"
— Tamora Pierce (Page)

29 people liked it

"'Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle"
— Tamora Pierce (The Realms of the Gods)

tags: humor
23 people liked it

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
— Neil Gaiman

404 people liked it

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
— Neil Gaiman

tags: writing
329 people liked it

"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. "
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

236 people liked it

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

tags: life
211 people liked it

"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."
— Neil Gaiman

tags: writing
195 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

154 people liked it

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