Annie Carlisle > Annie's Quotes

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again