Caitlin > Caitlin's Quotes

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”

“Sir?”

“—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.”
― Stan Redding, Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

“When you're up there hundreds of people will claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one will buy you a cup of coffee.”
― Stan Redding, Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

“Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks. The traffic signal that said walk the second you got there, that happened to every person in the course of a day.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“All our dreams begin in youth.”
― Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.”
― Daniel Wallace, Big Fish

“People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.”
― Daniel Wallace, Big Fish

“In an industry where people merely *play* heroes, he was the real thing.”
― Gary Fishgall, Pieces of Time: The Life of James Stewart

“Movies are ultimately popular because they give people moments they remember and treasure.”
― Gary Fishgall, Pieces of Time: The Life of James Stewart

“Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so-smart or -oh-so-pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne.”
― Stephen Cox, It's a Wonderful Life: A Memory Book

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“God bless us, every one!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.”
― John Steinbeck

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye