Colleen Cross > Colleen's Quotes

“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.”
― Edward Teller

“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.”
― Walt Disney Company

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
― James A. Michener

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

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
― Honore de Balzac

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own