Keith > Keith's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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

“but every home is its own island with its own secrets.”
― Harlan Coben, The Stranger

“Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.”
― Sue Grafton, F is for Fugitive

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
― Hugh Laurie

“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
― John Adams

“Normal' is a concept formed by averages but it changes with education and tolerance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice