Conor's quotes

(showing 1-46 of 46)

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
4,844 people liked it

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

tags: fantasy
3,867 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
3,713 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
3,232 people liked it

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour
1,981 people liked it

"The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
1,184 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
17,794 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
15,717 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
14,388 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
10,979 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,906 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
10,134 people liked it

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
614 people liked it

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger."
— Albert Camus

tags: stregnth
40 people liked it

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."
— Albert Camus

tags: fiction
36 people liked it

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."
— Albert Camus

35 people liked it

"Mythology is ancient psychology and psychology is recent mythology."
— cf. Hillman

tags: mythology, psychology
2 people liked it

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
— Horace Walpole

tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
70 people liked it

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
— John Lubbock

tags: inspirational, perspective, seeing, sight
15 people liked it

"All stories are true. But some of them never happened."
— James A. Owen (The Search for the Red Dragon)

tags: perspective, stories
5 people liked it

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: fiction, humor, novelist, science
171 people liked it

"The universe is a lot more complicated than you might think even if you start from a position of thinking that its pretty damn complicated to begin with."
— Douglas Adams

tags: complicated, universe
95 people liked it

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, science
60 people liked it

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
— Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity
189 people liked it

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
791 people liked it

"It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: ice-cream-sandwhiches, leaving-home
264 people liked it

"It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right."
— Lemony Snicket (The Blank Book)

tags: wrong
123 people liked it

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

tags: funny
592 people liked it

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

tags: anger, funny, sleep
755 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

"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

"When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye."
— Cathy Guisewite

tags: eyes, funny, lemons
512 people liked it

"Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. "
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

tags: a, funny, line-
7 people liked it

"A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice."
— Bill Cosby

tags: funny
162 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
1,691 people liked it

""A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
"
— William Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, risk
150 people liked it

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: books, inspirational, life, reading
924 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,482 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
1,436 people liked it

"All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle."
— Francis Of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)

tags: inspirational
571 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,073 people liked it

"Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
— Leonard Bernstein

tags: music
229 people liked it

"the past is only the future with the lights on."
— Mark Hoppus ("Blink 182")

tags: music
166 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
918 people liked it

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
— Plato

149 people liked it

"Those who tell the stories rule society."
— Plato

31 people liked it

Conor's profile »

all quotes
add a quote

tags from Conor's quotes

Soul
anger
be-yourself
books
canada
comedy
compassion
complicated
courage
cry
crying
death
dreams
emotions
experience
eyes
flying
funny
happiness
heaven
hg2g
humor
humor
humour
hurt
ice-cream-sandwhiches
inconceivable
individuality
inspirational
joy
lemons
life
love
movies
music
novelist
optimism
perspective
psychology
reading
reality
risk
sadness
sanity
seasons
seeing
sight
sing
sleep
smile
smiling
thinking
those-who-matter
tragedy
trial
triumph
Books
Funny
Inspirational
Leaving-home
Maya Angelou
a funny line!
confidence
dance
fantasy
fiction
flight
funny
happiness
humor
humour
insanity
inspirational
integrity
kindness
life
love
music
mythology
philosophy
sanity
science
science fiction
scifi
stories
stregnth
strength
universe
wrong