Books about Books

~MuSiC bAbY~ > ~MuSiC bAbY~ 's Quotes

Showing 1-21 of 21
sort by

    like
  • #1
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    129182 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: procrastination
    2142 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Bill Watterson
    “I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin, hiccup, hobbes, humor
    613 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
    15547 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Bill Watterson
    “In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor, jerks, science
    1290 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Bill Watterson
    “When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    784 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Bill Watterson
    “What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: fashion
    333 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.]
    Susie: Hello?
    Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play.
    Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to...
    Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing?
    Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away.
    Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play!
    Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO!
    Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor
    61 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm a misunderstood genius."
    "What's misunderstood?"
    "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, genius, misunderstood
    1061 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Bill Watterson
    “There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: idleness, time, wasting-time
    1552 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
    16947 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: life
    203 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Bill Watterson
    “Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
    Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
    Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
    Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin, hobbes, humor, intelligence
    553 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, comic, education, funny, school
    1206 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: adolescence, awkwardness, emotion, school
    784 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    ― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
    tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious
    8920 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
    18072 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35269 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Groucho Marx
    “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
    38022 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148737 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130424 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From ~MuSiC bAbY~ ’s Quotes

dance
heaven
hurt
inspirational
life
love
sing
procrastination
calvin
hiccup
hobbes
humor
misattributed-to-bill-gates
nerd
nerds
work
jerks
science
fashion
calvin-and-hobbes
genius
misunderstood
idleness
time
wasting-time
books
children
difficult
grown-ups
write
writers
writing
intelligence
comic
education
funny
school
adolescence
awkwardness
emotion
automobile
car
religious
romantic
women
obvious
simile
animals
dogs
friends
attributed-no-source
human-nature
infinity
philosophy
stupidity
universe
ataraxy
be-yourself
confidence
fitting-in
individuality
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter