Billy > Billy's Quotes

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway