Quotes - Tom Rogers (The United States) Showing 1-20 of 20

#1

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
― Amy Sedaris

1050 likes

#2

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

3620 likes

#3

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

tags: read, reader, reading

4079 likes

#4

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

2894 likes

#5

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6205 likes

#6

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4776 likes

#7

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1962 likes

#8

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

tags: writing-life

1671 likes

#9

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

1436 likes

#10

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

4160 likes

#11

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

2465 likes

#12

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

1389 likes

#13

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime

3193 likes

#14

“One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”
― Christopher Isherwood

326 likes

#15

“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
― Clive James

533 likes

#16

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

876 likes

#17

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

4087 likes

#18

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20722 likes

#19

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

4695 likes

#20

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

1549 likes

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