Chris > Chris's Quotes

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

“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

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet”
― Joe Raposo

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“The future has an ancient heart.”
― Carlo Levi

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman