Kaz > Kaz's Quotes

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice