Kirstie Ellen > Kirstie's Quotes

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“nothing is impossible”
― Walt Disney

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.”
― Charles Dickens

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia