John > John's Quotes

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.”
― Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George

“They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

“He never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to him that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko