Quotes - Laura (laurakath) (Brooklyn, NY) Showing 1-30 of 146

#1

“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

2608 likes

#2

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

1964 likes

#3

“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
― Mario Benedetti

tags: dreams, love, poetry, time

488 likes

#4

“El Olvido está lleno de Memoria”
― Mario Benedetti, El olvido está lleno de memoria

tags: inspiradora

142 likes

#5

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton

2772 likes

#6

“If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.”
― Whitney Otto, Eight Girls Taking Pictures

tags: art, images, photography

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#7

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

1535 likes

#8

“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

148352 likes

#9

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

2453 likes

#10

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

4330 likes

#11

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

1145 likes

#12

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#13

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

2955 likes

#14

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4140 likes

#15

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

tags: books

2573 likes

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