Quotes - Andy Dill (andydill) (Saint John, KS) Showing 1-30 of 67

#1

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

#2

“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

tags: friendship

88134 likes

#3

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

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23591 likes

#4

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

11757 likes

#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177412 likes

#6

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life

4290 likes

#7

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

1272 likes

#8

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy

1755 likes

#9

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

tags: darkness, dreams, time

1179 likes

#10

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

2518 likes

#11

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

2395 likes

#12

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars

11074 likes

#13

“My goodness, no one gives a gift to Santa Claus!”
― Michael Brown

685 likes

#14

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

1806 likes

#15

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

1142 likes

#16

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
― Timothy Mo

461 likes

#17

“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

tags: death, life, literature, messages

1566 likes

#18

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

1951 likes

#19

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

1294 likes

#20

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

3092 likes

#21

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

tags: jamaica-kincaid, lucy

1630 likes

#22

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

tags: books, inventions

2141 likes

#23

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

3666 likes

#24

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

2186 likes

#25

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

4767 likes

#26

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

1085 likes

#27

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

2571 likes

#28