Alan Cuthbert > Alan's Quotes

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I now walk into the wild.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
― Nathanael West

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami