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I'll go first! "Dont cry because its over; smile because it happened"
-Dr. Seuss
"For every minute you are angry, you loose 60 seconds of hapiness"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-Oscar Wilde
"A ship is safest in the harbor, but thats not what ships are for"
-William G. T. Shedd
"Logic will get you from A-Z, imagination will get you everywhere"
-Albert Einstein
"Live as if you were to die tommorow, learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi
(Ive got heaps more, but thats for alter)
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -- Francis BaconAnd my all time favourite writers quote;
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." -- Thomas Mann
Don't let anyone bring you back to earth, keep shooting for the stars-------David J Delaney.The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on-------David J Delaney.
A true poet is one who can learn and appreciate the disaplines of all the forms of poetry----David J Delaney.
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."Paul McCartney
"People say you're going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own."
Angelina Jolie
"In the world to come, each of us will be called to account for all the good things God put on earth but which we refused to enjoy."
The Talmud
"Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us..."
Rai Aren
Just a few:"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne Frank (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl)
Patience, my heart! You have put up with fouler than this!" — Odysseus
"If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you."
"Who's Magnus?" Max inquired.
"He's a warlock," said Alec.
"A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.
"But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled.
"Exactly," said Isabelle." Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)
"Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited." — Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"It is our choices, Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities." -J.K Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
"It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live".
-J.K Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
oo I have a few"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk
"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
"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
"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)
"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)
I have a lot more maybe I'll add later :D
Melanie wrote: "oo I have a few"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very ..."
Love those!
Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.-Stephen King
Stephen also wrote..."If a reader needs a Thesaurus to understand the meaning of what you are trying to put across; you have lost them!"
He also gave me his permission to use this in my 'intro' page in my new book. (-:
"If you are a dreamer, come inIf you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender come, sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!"
poem at beginning of inkheart (was thinking of getting this tattooed on me :D)
all the we see or seem is just a dream with in a dream
- Edgar Allan Poe
maybe we have to break everything, in order to make something of ourselves
- perks of being a wall flower (this is written on my wall)
those of you in the cheap seat clap your hands, the rest of you just rattle your jewellery
- the Beatles
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." — Martin Luther King Jr.
" there is only one person in the bible that Jesus offers salvation to, and he was a cheat and a liar...maybe the men on death row know something we dont"- American Gods by Neil Gaiman (shadows musings on death row inmates)
the quote goes something like this but this is from my memory I couldn't find it again
I Would Have Gotten Away With It Too, If It Wasn't For You Meddling Kids. Every bad guy who get's caught in Scooby Doo. :D
"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."
Veronica Roth, Divergent
My favourite saying when my children were young was: "Mother is NOT spelled S.L.A.V.E!" Now I hear them saying it to their children. It's called Gran's revenge. LOL!
"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart." (Finnick) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay,"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope." Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay.
"There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next." Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium.
"The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well.
-Proverb 42, The Book of Shhh." Lauren Oliver, Delirium.
"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, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." Marilyn Monroe
"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty." Marilyn Monroe.
"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." Lewis Carroll.
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." J.K. Rowling
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." J.K. Rowling.
Some of these quotes are great! I've started on Les Miserables (again - I read it years ago) - lots of lovely passages in it, from memory, but I've only read to page 19 at the moment..."If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place."
And:
"He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope."
Both from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
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