Clare's quotes

(showing 1-50 of 138)

"All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem"
— Hunter S. Thompson (Hell's Angels)

58 people liked it

"THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"
— Hunter S. Thompson

108 people liked it

"you are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UC THE LITTLE PRINCE)

28 people liked it

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics:1962-2001)

146 people liked it

"i would like to remind
the management
that the drinks are watered
and the hat-check girl
has syphilis
and the band is composed
of former ss monsters
However since it is
new year's eve
and i have lip cancer
i will place my
paper hat on my
concussion and dance"
— Leonard Cohen

11 people liked it

"There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
— Leonard Cohen

124 people liked it

"I don't even hate books anymore."
— Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers)

3 people liked it

"I'm a whisper in water."
— Björk

tags: hunter
6 people liked it

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

tags: life
423 people liked it

"This is a writer’s lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all."
— John Irving (Trying to Save Piggy Sneed)

7 people liked it

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

74 people liked it

"My last words? "Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse."
— Kurt Vonnegut

11 people liked it

"My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
— Kurt Vonnegut

17 people liked it

"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
— Kurt Vonnegut

25 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
1,011 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
5,889 people liked it

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: author, book, humorist, poet, wit
518 people liked it

"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor, writing
47 people liked it

"Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before."
— Steven Wright

tags: amnesia, humor, memory
774 people liked it

"It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor, love
45 people liked it

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
2,308 people liked it

"A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy... with polio."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd
63 people liked it

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
— Woody Allen

72 people liked it

"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable."
— Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

tags: humour, life
116 people liked it

"Kugelmass, unaware of this catastrophe, had his own problems. He had not been thrust into Portnoy's Complaint, or into any other novel, for that matter. He had been projected into an old textbook, Remedial Spanish, and was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word tener ("to have") - a large and hairy irregular verb - raced after him on its spindly legs."
— Woody Allen (Side Effects)

6 people liked it

"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
— Woody Allen

25 people liked it

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
— Woody Allen

52 people liked it

"Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: page-73
12 people liked it

"Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror."
— Truman Capote

26 people liked it

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
— Truman Capote

19 people liked it

"The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields."
— Truman Capote

22 people liked it

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning
1,004 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
1,216 people liked it

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
— Douglas Adams

152 people liked it

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: adams, douglas
273 people liked it

"The effect of drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
— Douglas Adams

50 people liked it

"'I have detected disturbances in the wash.'

'The wash?'

'The space-time wash.'

'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?'

'Eddies in the space-time continuum.'

'Ah...is he. Is he.'

'What?'

'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?'"
— Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe and Everything)

tags: humor
43 people liked it

"'Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.'

'Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.'"
— Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe and Everything)

tags: humor
139 people liked it

"The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.'"
— Jerry Seinfeld

34 people liked it

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
661 people liked it

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

364 people liked it

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

tags: beliefs, breakfast, humor, impossible
279 people liked it

"If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!"
— Nick Cave

12 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
15,222 people liked it

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
— Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers)

tags: artist, camera, photography
24 people liked it

"I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl"
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)

44 people liked it

"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. "
— Agatha Christie

16 people liked it

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life
187 people liked it

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: men, rescuing, women
374 people liked it

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: sadness
69 people liked it

« previous 1 2 3 next »

Clare's profile »

all quotes
add a quote

tags from Clare's quotes

Humour
amnesia
artist
attitude
book
breakfast
camera
choice
cry
crying
experience
flying
hg2g
humor
humorist
imagination
impossible
inspiration
joy
life
memory
movies
optimism
pain
poet
pretend
rescuing
sadness
smile
smiling
wit
women
Absurd
Douglas Adams
Hunter
action
author
beliefs
flight
happiness
humor
humor love
learning
life
men
page-73
photography
sadness
writing