Daria > Daria's Quotes

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.”
― Stephen Fry

“I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?”
― Janet Evanovich, One for the Money

“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”
― Martin Amis, The Information

“My alarm went off at five a.m., like always. But instead of rising from the bed to go to the office where I’m a star, I threw the clock across the room, smashing it to kingdom come.

It was annoying anyway. Stupid clock. Stupid beep-beep-beeping”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

“Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.”
― Charles M. Schultz

“There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
― Will Rogers

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“You must have been going very fast."
"I was, until I hit the fence.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Ark Angel

“In the kitchen Gamache’s German shepherd, Henri, sat up in his bed and cocked his head. He had huge oversized ears which made Gamache think he wasn’t purebred but a cross between a shepherd and a satellite dish.”
― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

“I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.”
― Helen Mirren

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
― Will Rogers

“Don’t you dare pee on me.”
― Roni Loren, Melt into You

“She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Because it has become a tradition to wear a mask, it is the only thing that shows. The truth is blurry to those who use their eyes to see.”
― Lionel Suggs

“Do you see how, up close, it’s blurry and passionate? And from a distance, whole?”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“To say I believe time is fluid, and so are the boundaries between human beings, the border separating helper from the one who hurts always blurry.”
― Lauren Slater, Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
― Woodrow Wilson