Quotes - Debbie Raulerson (Okeechobee, FL) Showing 1-30 of 84

#1

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71781 likes

#3

“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

2392 likes

#4

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31291 likes

#5

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
― Orson Welles

tags: dinner, humor

1259 likes

#6

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

3161 likes

#7

“Laters, baby.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

tags: christina-grey, e-l-james, fifty-shades-of-grey

4618 likes

#8

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

2296 likes

#9

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16176 likes

#10

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

3231 likes

#11

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

21279 likes

#12

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: discipline, freedom

1644 likes

#13

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12756 likes

#14

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

2274 likes

#15

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

tags: books

6776 likes

#16

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7677 likes

#17

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

from “Araby”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

tags: irish-short-stories

444 likes

#18

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
― Leonardo da Vinci

390 likes

#19

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

2629 likes

#20

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

1540 likes

#21

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

3695 likes

#22

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

1382 likes

#23

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

tags: daughters, family, love, mothers

992 likes

#24

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
― Frederick Buechner

tags: family

798 likes

#25

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
― Walt Whitman

1690 likes

#26