Bea > Bea's Quotes

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett