Holly Treadwell > Holly's Quotes

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
― Dolly Parton

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“I do not remember a time when I could not read, nor any time when reading was not a joy and a solace.”
― Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story

“Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
― Joss Whedon

“Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent

“Cages or wings, which do you prefer? Ask the birds...”
― Jonathan Larson, from "Louder than Words"

“525,600 minutes, 525,600 moments so dear, 525,600 minutes, how do you measure, measure a year”
― Jonathan Larson

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood