Amy > Amy's Quotes

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“She's half mad and three parts drunk.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time