Quotes - Ana (anaarranz) (Zaragoza, Spain) Showing 1-30 of 65

#1

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

tags: evil, monster

#2

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

857 likes

#3

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

2320 likes

#4

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

tags: love

1670 likes

#5

“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

1280 likes

#6

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

tags: beauty

992 likes

#7

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

tags: humorous-quotes, writers-and-writing, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes

742 likes

#8

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

tags: reading

1482 likes

#9

“A poem is like a score for the human voice.”
― Li-Young Lee

286 likes

#10

“All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.”
― David Walliams, Gangsta Granny

791 likes

#11

“I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
― Julia Donaldson

993 likes

#12

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

634 likes

#13

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.”
― Debbie Ford

837 likes

#14

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
― Jackie Collins

tags: writer, writing

508 likes

#15

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

702 likes

#16

“I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

tags: motivational

672 likes

#17

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

tags: fire, love

649 likes

#18

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
― Thomas Keller

tags: creativity, life

496 likes

#19

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

tags: books, literature, quality, sacredness

467 likes

#20

“A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
― Fran Lebowitz

855 likes

#21

“The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.”
― Martin Cruz Smith

361 likes

#22

“Permit your dreams to see the daylight.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

tags: dreams, dreams-quotes

518 likes

#23

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

831 likes

#24

“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: culture, heritage, stories, storytelling

443 likes

#25

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

880 likes

#26

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

tags: love, relationships

6312 likes

#27

“I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.”
― Morgan Llywelyn

tags: irish

342 likes

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