Annie > Annie's Quotes

“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Shelley

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I love not man the less, but nature more”
― Lord Byron

“A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.”
― George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals

“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
of human cities torture.”
― George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”
― George Gordon Byron

“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
― Lord Byron, Don Juan

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

“Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?”
― George Gordon Byron

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present — they are real.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

“The world is made by the people who show up for the job.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, CryoBurn

“Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold