Rivki's quotes

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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
15,652 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
17,707 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
14,310 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,168 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
10,086 people liked it

"He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'

'What you got on it?' the girl said.

'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'

'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely."
— Flannery O'Connor (The Complete Stories)

tags: funny, parkers-back
22 people liked it

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
— Phyllis Diller

tags: anger, funny, sleep
749 people liked it

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
— Golda Meir

tags: funny, golda, meir, true
175 people liked it

"You spend your whole life trying to get people to like you and then you run over one person with your car - not even one of the popular ones - and everybody gets on your case. Doesn't make any sense."
— Michael Scott

tags: funny, humor, office
341 people liked it

"I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days."
— Jon Stewart

tags: canada, funny
197 people liked it

"What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes."
— Gena Showalter (Oh My Goth)

tags: funny, life
95 people liked it

"[Thine] face is not worth sunburning."
— William Shakespeare

tags: funny, henry-v, shakespeare
5 people liked it

"Perv."
He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?"
— Rachel Caine (Midnight Alley)

tags: funny, morganvillevampires
167 people liked it

"You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!"
— Lauren Myracle (ttfn)

tags: funny, humor, waffles
214 people liked it

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
— Ed Gardner

tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed-
226 people liked it

"Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
"All the time.""
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

tags: always, dd, fink, flotsam, funny, humor, i, jeremy, jetsam, keys, lizzy, mass, right, think, true, wendy, what
168 people liked it

"I get paid for what most kids get punished for."
— Jerry Lewis

tags: funny, humor, jerry, lewis
26 people liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,686 people liked it

"'That cat doesn't have a lick of sense,' I said, sighing.

'Well, honey, he's not right in the head,' Dad said, flipping his cigarette into the front yard.

I glared at him. 'And just what do you mean by that?'

Dad counted on his fingers. 'He's cross-eyed; he jumps out of trees after birds and then doesn't land on his feet; he sleeps with his head smashed up against the wall, and the tip of his tail is crooked.'

'Oh yeah? Well, how about this: he once got locked in a basement by evil Petey Scroggs in the middle of January and survived on snow and little frozen mice. When I'm cold at night he sleeps right on my face. Of that whole litter of kittens he came out of he's the only one left. One of his brothers didn't even have a butthole.'

'I stand corrected. PeeDink is a survivor.' "
— Haven Kimmel (Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana)

tags: funny
13 people liked it

"It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you. "
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

36 people liked it

""I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.""
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

25 people liked it

"my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

14 people liked it

"Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

16 people liked it

"Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

15 people liked it

"Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

17 people liked it

"I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: death, parenting
14 people liked it

"When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

13 people liked it

"… true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart. "
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

36 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,239 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
10,930 people liked it

"Do you hate people?

I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
— Charles Bukowski (The Movie: Barfly)

333 people liked it

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is."
— Ellen DeGeneres

tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking
324 people liked it

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

tags: facts, humor
330 people liked it

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep
370 people liked it

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
375 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
366 people liked it

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

tags: women
457 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing
420 people liked it

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

408 people liked it

"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
— Lily Tomlin

tags: humor, life, race, rat
469 people liked it

"Does my being half-naked bother you?" - Jacob Black"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: humor
471 people liked it

"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself."
— John Green

528 people liked it

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?"
— Chris Rock

tags: comedy, everyday, funny, humor, life, observational
500 people liked it

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run the walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
508 people liked it

"If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats."
— Lemony Snicket (The Wide Window)

tags: allergies, cats, humor
479 people liked it