Igor > Igor's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 34

« previous 1 2 next »

like

#1

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

tags: books, friendship, inspirational, irony, stealing

285 likes

like

#2

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: experience

1671 likes

like

#3

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130755 likes

like

#4

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

1861 likes

like

#5

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
― G.K. Chesterton

516 likes

like

#6

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5552 likes

like

#7

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: good-evil

2893 likes

like

#8

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence

853 likes

like

#9

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11783 likes

like

#10

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

3031 likes

like

#11

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: books, bookstore, towns

5356 likes

like

#12

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35268 likes

like

#13

“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

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32207 likes

like

#14

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

24395 likes

like

#15

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

25689 likes

like

#16

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

11627 likes

like

#17

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

8139 likes

like

#18

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious

8924 likes

like

#19

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

7020 likes

like

#20

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

11398 likes

like

#21

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror

1635 likes

like

#22

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

3878 likes

like

#23

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

19829 likes

like

#24

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

2882 likes

like

#25

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: insanity, inspiration

1332 likes

like

#26

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

6214 likes

like

#27

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

4080 likes

like

#28

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

tags: captain, fate, master

2307 likes

like

#29

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: identity, pretend

4108 likes

like

#30

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21573 likes

« previous 1 2 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Igor’s Quotes

books
friendship
inspirational
irony
stealing
experience
ataraxy
be-yourself
confidence
fitting-in
individuality
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter
boredom
human-nature
ignorance
words
good-evil
hit
sages
thinking
violence
culture
reading
bookstore
towns
humor
obvious
simile
deadlines
humour
work
writing
exercise
laziness
misattributed-to-hutchins
death
fear
life
god
automobile
car
funny
religious
temptation
misattributed-john-wayne
horror
insanity
lies
lying
self-indulgence
truth
inspiration
love
philosophy
philosophy-of-life
progress
captain
fate
master
identity
pretend