Isabel > Isabel's Quotes

“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
― John Green

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“It is no use trying to sum people up.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“When they asked me what I wanted, I said: ‘The world.”
― Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
― Rebecca Katherine Martin

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

“Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
― Czeslaw Milosz