Quotes - Bradley McCann (Adelaide, Australia) Showing 1-30 of 50

#1

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: book, hunger, weapon

1552 likes

#2

“Living is a horizontal fall.”
― Jean Cocteau, Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

924 likes

#3

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4557 likes

#4

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, inspirational

2483 likes

#5

“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: mary-malone, morality

1076 likes

#6

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence

13705 likes

#7

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

1503 likes

#8

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
― George Burns

1006 likes

#9

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
― Peter De Vries

935 likes

#10

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

3855 likes

#11

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: love

1548 likes

#12

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

2256 likes

#13

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

tags: inspirational, my-psalm

1280 likes

#14

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

9724 likes

#15

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

1694 likes

#16

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

tags: writing

1747 likes

#17

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

tags: imagination, immortality

1860 likes

#18

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

1819 likes

#19

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

1018 likes

#20

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6643 likes

#21

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

1626 likes

#22

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7576 likes

#23

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

2845 likes

#24

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

tags: dream, first-sentence

2326 likes

#25

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

1879 likes

#26

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3578 likes

#27

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

4078 likes

#28

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

2186 likes

#29

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

2113 likes

#30

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

tags: liberty, words

460 likes

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