Nancy > Nancy's Quotes

“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“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

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

“They never see me coming.
Know why?
Because I’m already there.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito