Bert Murray > Bert's Quotes

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“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

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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

“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
― Bob Dylan

“Character is plot, plot is character.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?”
― Bert Murray, Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled

“Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.”
― Jen Selinsky

“It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".”
― Sandra Brown, Envy

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves