Ali > Ali's Quotes

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
― George Burns

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”
― George Gordon Byron

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”
― W.D. Snodgrass

“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”
― Aprilynne Pike, Illusions

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

“...her dearest friends are characters in books.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire