Mel > Mel's Quotes

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class”
― Lani Diane Rich

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“When people seek to undermine your dreams, predict your doom or criticize you, remember that they are telling you their story, not yours.”
― Cynthia Occelli

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
― W.C. Fields

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“Would you just stay with me?
Stay with you? What for? Look at us! We're already fighting!
Well that's what we do! We fight! You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass! Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings, you have like a two-second rebound rate and you're back doing the next pain in the ass thing.
So, what?
So it's not gonna be easy, it's gonna be really hard. And we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke