Angela Misri > Angela's Quotes

“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
― Paul Brandt

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”
― Alice Munro

“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. ”
― Alice Munro, Away from Her

“Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.”
― Alice Munro

“I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?”
― Marti Noxon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“You are the Hero of your own Story.”
― Joseph Campbell

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter