Quotes - Lee Allen (leeallen) (Cardiff, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 66

#1

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

2611 likes

#2

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

tags: humanity, life

1835 likes

#3

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

1736 likes

#4

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5609 likes

#5

“...There are so many paths you can follow. So much effect from one simple cause.”
― Lee Allen, Those Crimes of Passion

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#6

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

1512 likes

#7

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

1017 likes

#8

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

3239 likes

#9

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3588 likes

#10

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

1567 likes

#11

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

1397 likes

#12

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

1838 likes

#13

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

2430 likes

#14

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2366 likes

#15

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

tags: philosophical, spiritual

1391 likes

#16

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

tags: art

1573 likes

#17

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

2763 likes

#18

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

1360 likes

#19

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

2108 likes

#20

“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

tags: new-years

1031 likes

#21

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

8100 likes

#22

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

1783 likes

#23

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

tags: expectation

6489 likes

#24

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

1232 likes

#25

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6883 likes

#26

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11273 likes

#27

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

2795 likes

#28

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23778 likes

#29

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

3617 likes

#30

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

2066 likes

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