Alfred Nobile > Alfred's Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“Isabel frowned. “Alma Trumbo, you did not just dig up a human bone from our flowerbed. It’s got to be a dinosaur bone, dinky or not.”

“A dinosaur bone, eh?” The short, stout Alma gave her tall, slim sister the old up and down. “What then, are we the Flintstones living in Bedrock?”
― Ed Lynskey, Sweet Betsy

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.”
― Gerda Weissmann Klein, All But My Life

“I'm thinking that, collectively, men are only slightly more observant than mollusks.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“Don't worry, Duffy. I like you. We'll kill you last.”
― Adrian McKinty, I Hear the Sirens in the Street

“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.”
― Alasdair Gray, Every Short Story, 1951-2012

“different, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution.”
― Tyrone Reid, What Comes After Rock Bottom?: A Story of Surviving, Healing, and Embracing a New Beginning