Exscapex > Exscapex's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 106
« previous 1 3 4
sort by

  • #1
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “Live not for Battles Won.
    Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
    Live in the along.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

  • #2
    Ilona Andrews
    “If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”
    Ilona Andrews, Fate's Edge

  • #3
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #4
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #6
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #7
    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #13
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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

  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #16
    James Joyce
    “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #17
    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    Robert Fulghum, True Love

  • #18
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #19
    Alan Bennett
    “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

  • #20
    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

  • #21
    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

  • #22
    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #26
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #28
    Ilona Andrews
    “It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.”
    Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic

  • #29
    Ilona Andrews
    “You will not pass!” Roman thundered.
    Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.”
    Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic

  • #30
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You



Rss
« previous 1 3 4