Quotes - Marianne Weber (Stillwater, OK) Showing 1-29 of 29

#1

“The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.”
― Matthew Thomas

tags: inspirational, life-philosophy

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#2

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational

3306 likes

#3

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

5753 likes

#4

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

2856 likes

#5

“Don't go where I can't follow!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

887 likes

#6

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

3349 likes

#7

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: courage, reputation

2551 likes

#8

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

4617 likes

#9

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

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#10

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

2168 likes

#11

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

2003 likes

#12

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

5282 likes

#13

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

1606 likes

#14

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3590 likes

#15

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

tags: folly, foolishness, luck, merits, nero-wolfe, vainer, vainity, wisdom, wise

572 likes

#16

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

2817 likes

#17

“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

1161 likes

#18

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

3776 likes

#19

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

2265 likes

#20

“Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist.

And a devil knelt over him and smiled.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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#21

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

42319 likes

#22

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

3951 likes

#23

“Step up to red alert."
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf”
― Rob Grant; Grant Naylor

tags: humour, red-dwarf, science-fiction, sf

47 likes

#24

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: humor, novelist, science-fiction

2678 likes

#25

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37989 likes

#26

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

2283 likes

#27

“You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life--that's just being a tourist. Take every shot, Kate. If it's worth caring about, no matter how impossible you think it is--you take the shot.”
― Matt Fraction (Author), Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon

tags: life

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#28

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

4523 likes

#29

“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

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