C.E. Darrell > C.E.'s Quotes

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”
― Bette Midler

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“GIRL, write YOUR book dammit.
Who cares what people think?
If writers in the past cared what other people thought we'd still be glossing over 'inappropriate' kissing scenes.
Break the fucking rules.
Push yourself to the edge.
Show the world what YOU can do.
This is YOUR book. YOUR blood and guts.
AND, don't you EVER, EVER, write one single line for SOMEONE ELSE.”
― Madeline Sheehan

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
― Christopher Marlowe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers