Jennifer Stringer > Jennifer's Quotes

“Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.”
― L.M. Montgomery (Author)

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
― George Sand, Correspondance, 1812-1876; Volume 5

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

“My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”
― Janet Evanovich

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.”
― Herman Melville

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”
― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing möbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“Men as fit as you when your everyday strength is gone can draw on a mysterious reservoir of power far greater. Then it is that you can reach for the stars. That is the way champions are made.”
― George Pocock

“You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah”
― Leonard Cohen

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad."
"No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena