Michelle > Michelle's Quotes

“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“I’m not antisocial. I just want to be left alone.” ~ Roland”
― Dianne Duvall, Darkness Dawns

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
― Maya Angelou

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.”
― Dean Koontz

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero