Ivan > Ivan's Quotes

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.”
― John Grisham

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Body Double

“And obstructing justice, which is another felony.”
― Joseph Finder, High Crimes: A Novel

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Some people have more guts than brains.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi