Sally Lindsay-briggs > Sally's Quotes

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.”
― Catherine Coulter, TailSpin

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there wil always be a place for them.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“God has a plan. I wrote a book, God wrote the plan.”
― Danny L. Deaubé

“One may have an abundance of faith in God, but do we trust Him when we don't understand? What good is faith without trust?”
― Danny L. Deaubé

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see the whole picture.”
― Danny L. Deaubé

“As a Christian, our existence here on earth is a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be on the whole pie, and not the sliver.”
― Danny L. Deaubé

“We scatter wisdom through our libraries that it may be ignored by our children”
― Gary Jones, Stolen Virus

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile.”
― Anne Byrn

“Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...”
― Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven

“Anyway, knowledge isn't wisdom, and we aren't here just to stuff ourselves with facts and figures. We are given this life so we might earn the next; the gift is a chance to grow in spirit, and knowledge is one of the many nutrients that facilitate our growth.”
― Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven

“The fact that God loves me just as much when I make a mistake is hard to wrap my head around, but that is what makes grace...grace.”
― Sandra McCollom, I Tried Until I Almost Died: From Anxiety and Frustration to Rest and Relaxation

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy