Quotes - Emily Stroba (Eddington, ME) Showing 1-30 of 50

#1

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

#2

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: genius, humor

2183 likes

#3

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

1105 likes

#4

“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

2760 likes

#5

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

1896 likes

#6

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

5615 likes

#7

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

tags: coast, island-living, sea

1064 likes

#8

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

1686 likes

#9

“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

1233 likes

#10

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

6689 likes

#11

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

2555 likes

#12

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

1059 likes

#13

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

2385 likes

#14

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6732 likes

#15

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
― Ezra Pound

tags: books

1051 likes

#16

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

13324 likes

#17

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

tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity

3206 likes

#18

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

2247 likes

#19

“Silence is so freaking loud”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: just-listen, loud, owen, sara-dessen, silence

2302 likes

#20

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

3674 likes

#21

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

3397 likes

#22

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

2376 likes

#23

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr

tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary

1114 likes

#24

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

tags: humor, humour

1040 likes

#25

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

1531 likes

#26

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

2551 likes

#27

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

1707 likes

#28

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

1440 likes

#29

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

1343 likes

#30

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

4556 likes

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