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"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
6,746 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
15,602 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,836 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
10,057 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,129 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,321 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,693 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
6,502 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
6,155 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
5,950 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,900 people liked it

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

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,232 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,234 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)

332 people liked it

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: faith
335 people liked it

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
— Albert Einstein

337 people liked it

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
337 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
322 people liked it

"Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
330 people liked it

"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

tags: humour, wisdom
324 people liked it

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspirational
332 people liked it

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: love
327 people liked it

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, fiction, literature
330 people liked it

"Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
335 people liked it

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac

325 people liked it

"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear."
— Lemony Snicket (The Carnivorous Carnival)

tags: humor, miracles
326 people liked it

"To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: funny, humour
319 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
325 people liked it

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
— Laozi

tags: life, travel
326 people liked it

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

tags: books, reading
322 people liked it

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
294 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
303 people liked it

"All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: reading, secrets
321 people liked it

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Act 5, scene 5, 19–28 "
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

306 people liked it

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato

tags: philosophy
303 people liked it

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

tags: books, humor, reading
303 people liked it

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

tags: fascism, freedom, politics, religion
314 people liked it

"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake."
— Jon Stewart

tags: humor, religion
313 people liked it

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
— Jay McInerney (The Last of the Savages)

tags: family, friendship, humor
307 people liked it

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading
317 people liked it

"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
— Bill Watterson (The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: humor
321 people liked it

"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind."
— Modest Mouse (Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News)

tags: music
316 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
319 people liked it

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
324 people liked it

"Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door."
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: dance, humor, music, radio, shower
319 people liked it

"“Meow” means “woof” in cat. "
— George Carlin

tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language
316 people liked it

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)"
— Various (Holy Bible: King James Version)

tags: faith, god, hope, love
325 people liked it

"Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

335 people liked it

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning
317 people liked it

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

tags: clothing
325 people liked it

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