T > T's Quotes

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. ”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
― Andy Warhol

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Ги затворив очите, за ти да ги отвориш.”
― Ирена Павлова Де Одорико, Потстанарка

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness