Suzanne > Suzanne's Quotes

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

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
― Edgar Degas

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
― Ira Gershwin

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
― Alfred de Musset

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
― Samuel Lover, Rory O'More