Riley > Riley's Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Percepliquis

“Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes."
"Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”
― W.D. Snodgrass

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

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

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
― David Bowie

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I said a lot of true things, the most jarring ones I could, because if you say honest things harshly people look at them. And not at you.”
― E. Jade Lomax, Remember the Dust