Janny > Janny's Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
― Joseph Campbell

“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.”
― Julie E. Czerneda

“Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.”
― Chuck Jones

“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams