Quotes - Caroline Bock (carolinebock) (Potomac, MD) Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press”
― Caroline Bock

tags: life, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-readers

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#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71733 likes

#3

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109412 likes

#4

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

tags: readers-and-writers

1859 likes

#5

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

tags: growth, poetry

1735 likes

#6

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

33881 likes

#7

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

12750 likes

#8

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

3932 likes

#9

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

17192 likes

#10

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

1935 likes

#11

“People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.”
― Francine Prose, Goldengrove

43 likes

#12

“Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.”
― Caroline Bock, Before My Eyes

tags: gun-violence, mental-illness, young-adult

4 likes

#13

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6997 likes

#14

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

3619 likes

#15

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9168 likes

#16

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: wonder

2207 likes

#17

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

49915 likes

#18

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

25186 likes

#19

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

21522 likes

#20

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

17477 likes

#21

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

13078 likes

#22

“Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun."
--p. 1 ...Before My Eyes...look for it on 2.11.14”
― Caroline Bock

tags: gun-violence, mental-illness, young-adult

1 likes

#23

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3795 likes

#24

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor

1471 likes

#25

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

2917 likes

#26

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

1360 likes

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