Jill > Jill's Quotes

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville