Tina Hayes > Tina's Quotes

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
― Walker Evans

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise

“My soul will find yours.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?”
― Frederick Douglass