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“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”
― Steve Irwin

“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.”
― Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

“It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.”
― Terri Irwin, Steve & Me

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man”
― Jules Verne

“It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other.

As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means

Poor Justin!”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been really great spy maneuvering except that Josh didn't use Evapopaper.

"How's the lasagna?" Mr. Solomon asked, and I started to say something before I remembered that my mouth was...well...otherwise engaged.”
― Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.”
― Jeff Corwin

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
― Walt Disney

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.”
― Walt Disney

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
― Walt Disney

“Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.”
― Walt Disney

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway”
― Walt Disney Company

“Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”
― Walt Disney

“Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age.”
― Walt Disney Company

“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
― Anita Merina

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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