Simon Okill > Simon's Quotes

“Nobody knows anything.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“passion is the risk that feeds our desires”
― simon okill

“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.”
― Will Ferrell

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
― Groucho Marx

“Interviewer: “Andy do you feel that the public has insulted your art?”
Andy Warhol: “Uh no.”
I: “Why not?”
AW: “Uh well I hadn’t thought about it.”
I: “It doesn’t bother you at all then?”
AW: “Uh no.”
I: “Well do you think that they have shown a lack of appreciation for what pop art means?”
AW: “Uh no.”
I: “Andy do you think that pop art has sort of reached the point where it’s becoming repetitious now?”
AW: “Uh yes.”
I: “Do you think it should break away from being pop art?”
AW: “Uh no.”
I: “Are you just going to carry on?”
AW: “Uh yes.”
― Andy Warhol

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

“Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree

“I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.

But there are much worse games to play.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“I see a nation filled with good, hardworking people who are wondering what happened to the country they knew. It wasn't long ago that we were expected to pay our bills, we were able to pray at the town meeting, and we believed it was important to rely on ourselves or our families rather than government.”
― Rick Perry, Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington

“The day my dad left my mom and I was the second saddest day of my life. The saddest day was the next day, when he returned home.
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― Jarod Kintz, If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

“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 think the most romantic letter you ever gave me was “W,” because it’s a couple of soul mate “V”s. Or maybe they were a couple of letters of the same sex engaging in a homosexual relationship. A “W” is two “V”s in a civil union, but the world is not ready to flip that on its head and let them go for the big “M.”
― Jarod Kintz, So many chairs, and no time to sit

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
― Nora Roberts

“Children see magic because they look for it.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss