Ana > Ana's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 265
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
sort by

  • #1
    Richard Wilbur
    “What is the opposite of two?
    A lonely me, a lonely you.”
    Richard Wilbur, Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences

  • #2
    Elizabeth Kostova
    “It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
    Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

  • #3
    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words.”
    Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

  • #4
    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #5
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    Stéphane Mallarmé

  • #6
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #7
    George R.R. Martin
    “Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #8
    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

  • #9
    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

  • #10
    Peter S. Beagle
    “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
    Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

  • #11
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #12
    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
    Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    China Miéville, King Rat

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #17
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #18
    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

  • #19
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

  • #21
    Alan             Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    Alan Moore

  • #22
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “One Ring to rule them all,
    One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all
    and in the darkness bind them.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #25
    Paolo Giordano
    “Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
    Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

  • #26
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #28
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #29
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.”
    Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9