Jade > Jade's Quotes

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
― Richard Ford

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

“Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands.”
― John Boyne, Mutiny on the Bounty