Alejandro > Alejandro's Quotes

Showing 1-22 of 22
sort by

  • #1
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    “Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
    Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #9
    Jarod Kintz
    “Just to show my dad that I think he's number one, I bought him a urinal cake for his birthday.”
    Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

  • #10
    Connie Willis
    “That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
    Connie Willis, Passage

  • #11
    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Your hair is winter fire
    January embers
    My heart burns there, too.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #13
    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #14
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #15
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #16
    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    Jean Genet

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
    Stephen King

  • #18
    Alberto Manguel
    “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
    Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

  • #19
    Eça de Queirós
    “Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
    Eça de Queirós

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #22
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road



Rss