Jennavier > Jennavier's Quotes

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

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

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in the heart.”
― Louise Bogan

“...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.”
― Louise Bogan

“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

“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its energy from hope, it is the Russian people.”
― John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Hell of a sight. She let out a scream and just fell to pieces. Can't say I blame her. Like I said, this sort of thing is not for the female temperament." He directed that last sentiment at me, making eye contact for the first time.

"I dare say you're right, sir," I conceded, meeting his gaze. "Out of curiosity, though, is there someone whose temperament you do find suited to this sort of thing? I think I would be most unnerved to meet a man who found it pleasant.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree

“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.”
― Tanya Huff

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.”
― Katherine Longshore, Brazen

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“Julie has developed some issues.” Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“The point is, I have no patience left. You will tell me where you went when you vanished. Now.” Andrea raised her chin, as if daring me to take a swing. “Or?” Or what exactly? “Or I will punch you right in the face.” Andrea froze. For a second I thought she would bolt for the door. She sighed instead. “Can I at least get some coffee first?”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays

“Where is she?”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Greek Mythology for Kids

“A catfish was staring at him blankly. Its whiskery tendrils drifted in the current. The expression on its face said, “Why is there a dragon sleeping on my river stones?” Webs ate it, and that made him feel a little better.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir

“What could it be,”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Greek Mythology for Kids

“take just one peep!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Greek Mythology for Kids

“I found his hair between my fingers.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles