Stephen > Stephen's Quotes

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader

“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
― Will Durant

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
― James Joyce

“If you want to build a flotilla of ships you don’t sit around and talk about carpentry. You set the saws ablaze with visions of exploring distant shores.”
― Antione de Saint-Exupery

“How powerful is a single moment of validation to a young imagination?”
― Nik Askew

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring