Ana 's quotes

(showing 1-50 of 121)

"But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,

the pins stick further in."
— Tim Burton

20 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,891 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,208 people liked it

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

tags: music
2,266 people liked it

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

tags: music
581 people liked it

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry
632 people liked it

"Music is my higher power"
— Oliver James

tags: music, religion
135 people liked it

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

tags: anger, funny, sleep
840 people liked it

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: churchill, funny, true, winston
495 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
12,518 people liked it

"I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes."
— Jack Handey

tags: absurd
204 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,922 people liked it

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
2,191 people liked it

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,602 people liked it

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
2,056 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
2,233 people liked it

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
— Albert Einstein

366 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
7,224 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,972 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,325 people liked it

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,832 people liked it

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

tags: love
350 people liked it

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
— M.T. Anderson (Feed)

tags: first-sentence
46 people liked it

"Happy endings aren't for cowards."
— Jill A. Davis (Girls' Poker Night)

tags: first-sentence
32 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,187 people liked it

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: curiosity, women
1,669 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
434 people liked it

"Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.

Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
672 people liked it

"Inigo: I donna suppose you could speed things up?

Westley: If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find something useful to do.

Inigo: I could do that. I have some rope up here, but I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you.

Westley: That does put a damper on our relationship."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie, trust
285 people liked it

"Have fun storming the castle!"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: books, castles, humor, movie
284 people liked it

"Fezzik: Inigo?

Inigo: What?

Fezzik: I hope we win."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
99 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,449 people liked it

"Westley (as he is unsuccessfully fighting Fezzik): Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?

Fezzik: I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
146 people liked it

"Is this a kissing book?"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: books, kissing, movie
244 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
6,613 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,808 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,953 people liked it

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

982 people liked it

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

tags: dramatist, quotes
488 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare
473 people liked it

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

340 people liked it

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself....
- (Act II, Scene II)"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo And Juliet)

tags: love, romeo-and-juliet
466 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
716 people liked it

"These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. (Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene VI )"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare
124 people liked it

"Take it in what sense thou wilt."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

16 people liked it

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

tags: romeo-and-juliet
71 people liked it

"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think."
— Adolf Hitler

18 people liked it

"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."
— Katharine Hepburn

91 people liked it

"You can’t change the music of your soul."
— Katharine Hepburn

21 people liked it

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
— Katharine Hepburn (Me : Stories of My Life)

tags: life
65 people liked it

« previous 1 2 3 next »

Ana 's profile »

all quotes
add a quote

tags from Ana 's quotes

Churchill
Literature
Poetry
anger
best
books
castles
creativity
darkness
drive-out
food
frost
funny
glitter
gold
hate
human nature
humor
infinity
inspirational
life
light
lost
love
mistakes
movie
music
out-of-control
peace
philosophy
roots
science
shakespeare
sleep
strength
strong
stupidity
true
trust
truth
universe
wander
wither
women
worst
writing
Absurd
Dramatist Quotes
Einstein
Funny
Human-Condition
Life
Love Trust Wrong Do-Wrong
Music
Romeo-and-Juliet
Shakespeare
Winston
first-sentence
freedom
greatness
humor
humor
insanity
inspirational
insults
kissing
life
love
music
philosophy
poetry
reality
religion
romeo-and-juliet
science
wisdom
women
women curiosity