Nancy > Nancy's Quotes

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

“Standing at the original Victorian counter was a man in a long black leather coat. His hair had been grown to counteract its unequivocal retreat from the top of his head, and was fashioned into a mean, frail ponytail that hung limply down his back. Blooms of acne highlighted his vampire-white skin.”
― Julia Stuart, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

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

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think and you will find a way out.”
― Anand Neelakantan, Ajaya: Roll of the Dice

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust