Quotes - Sophie Narey (Bookreview- aholic) (Bradford, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 139

#1

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

2460 likes

#2

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

2145 likes

#3

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

2399 likes

#4

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

2111 likes

#5

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

1514 likes

#6

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

tags: change, growth

2147 likes

#7

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

1574 likes

#8

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

2713 likes

#9

“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!

23677 likes

#10

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

1540 likes

#11

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

2887 likes

#12

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.

But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.”
― Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

tags: absurd

438 likes

#13

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”
― Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

968 likes

#14

“It's strange how the people you care about least, sometimes know you the best. You let your guard down with them because you don't mind that they see you, warts and all.”
― Paige Toon, Chasing Daisy

80 likes

#15

“Yes, I still call them flip-flops, even though I've lived in Australia for ten years. I can't accept that thongs aren't something that get stuck up the crack in your bum.”
― Paige Toon, Pictures of Lily

10 likes

#16

“She was halfway on the tipsy train to drunk when I left, but now she has clearly reached the station.”
― Paige Toon, Baby Be Mine

7 likes

#17

“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: gods, humour, religion, stupidity

1276 likes

#18

“You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. ”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: dragons, maps

350 likes

#19

“My name is immaterial,' she said.
That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

251 likes

#20

“If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: humour

173 likes

#21

“Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

177 likes

#22

“Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!"
"Can't we do anything about it?"
"No!"
"Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: humor

93 likes

#23

“Magic never dies. It merely fades away.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

70 likes

#24

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177412 likes

#25

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130290 likes

#26

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

129005 likes

#27