Quotes - Britta Stumpp (brittasdance) (Ogden, UT) Showing 1-30 of 147

#1

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

3181 likes

#2

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

3264 likes

#3

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

1493 likes

#4

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

tags: class-struggle, war

1183 likes

#5

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9945 likes

#6

“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”
― Anais Nin

251 likes

#7

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5878 likes

#8

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

6512 likes

#9

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

3370 likes

#10

“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
― Isabel Allende

169 likes

#11

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

tags: hard, poetry

882 likes

#12

“How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.”
― Janet Fitch

141 likes

#13

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

7562 likes

#14

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism

2183 likes

#15

“The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: adolf-hitler, electoral-politics, george-w-bush, humor, politics

1081 likes

#16

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

299 likes

#17

“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

tags: readers-and-writers

108 likes

#18

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

tags: novel, politics

1132 likes

#19

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: history, truth

1178 likes

#20

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

1652 likes

#21

“If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: dance, ritual, self-awareness

91 likes

#22

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

20098 likes

#23

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11929 likes

#24

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: fragility, love, vulnerability

1332 likes

#25

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

5456 likes

#26

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

3225 likes

#27

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love, obsession, sleep

4183 likes

#28

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading

1134 likes

#29

“The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
― Margaret Atwood

231 likes

#30

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

tags: evil, stupidity

937 likes

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