Quotes - Ami E. Bowen (skayda) (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 36

#1

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#2

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27871 likes

#3

“Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

tags: if-there-be-thorns

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#4

“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

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#5

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

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#6

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#7

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

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#8

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

10857 likes

#9

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

tags: secrets

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#10

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

3190 likes

#11

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

4673 likes

#12

“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.”
― Julie Rugg, A Book Addict's Treasury

tags: reading, reading-books

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#13

“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”
― John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

tags: books, john-piper, reading-books

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#14

“A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then—click—a world opens.”
― Brad Kessler, Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

tags: reading-books

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#15

“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: novel, publishing, reading, reading-books, reading-readers-writers, writing, writing-philosophy

38 likes

#16

“Never judge a book by its "spine".”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

tags: reading-books

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#17

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”
― Tomie dePaola

tags: gaining-knowledge, literacy, reading-books

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#18

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#19

“Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

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#20

“She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left.

'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

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#21

“I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

tags: humor

110 likes

#22

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13095 likes

#23

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

#24

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#25

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#26

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight

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#27

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#28

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#29

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft