Dixie Keyes > Dixie's Quotes

“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost

“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
― John Steinbeck

“It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451