Anny Borg > Anny's Quotes

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Yes. We will live the rest of our lives in hell. It's not so bad: as long as you're prepared for it, you can live anywhere.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Captive Fool (light novel)

“When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation (light novel)

“All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime

“I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime

“...there are a lot of things in this world you don't understand. Discovering those things is one of life's joys.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime

“People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?”
― Mizuki Nomura

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

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.”
― John Marsden

“A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.'
'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly.
'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.”
― John Marsden

“People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren’t opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.”
― John Marsden

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchhill

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass