C.E. Smith > C.E.'s Quotes

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
― Bruce Lee

“I was going to get smart, and I was going to change the world. I was audacious enough to believe it, too. Fortunately it takes that kind of audacity to accomplish anything significant.”
― Jamie Sedgwick, The Tinkerer's Daughter

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair—appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.”
― Alan Alda

“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night