Dee > Dee's Quotes

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

“I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“In the absence of facts.... we tell ourselves stories.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall